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1 online resource (279 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations |
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Routledge studies on African politics and international relations.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: the game of the rules ; PART I A new concept?; 2 Practical norms: informal regulations within public bureaucracies (in Africa and beyond); 3 Africanist traditionalist culturalism: analysis of a scientific ideology and a plea for an empirically grounded concept of culture encompassing practical norms; 4 Hybrid orders and practical norms: a Weberian view; PART II Real governance in practice; 5 Juggling with the norms: informal payment and everyday governance of healthcare facilities in Niger |
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6 The King is not a kinsman: multiple accountabilities and practical norms in West African bureaucracies7 Ethnography of everyday ethics in a South African medical ward; 8 Managing with escapes -- human rights and the practical norms of prison governance in Uganda; 9 In pursuit of arrangements that work: bricolage, practical norms and everyday water governance; 10 Evident but elusive: practical norms in the Congolese gold sector; 11 Beyond corruption: the everyday life of a justice of the peace court in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Index |
| Summary |
Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants. This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms which make up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the concept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographic investigation of public bureaucracies, interactions between c |
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Print version record |
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Administrative agencies -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Bureaucracy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Civil service -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Political culture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Public administration -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Administrative agencies.
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Bureaucracy.
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Civil service.
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Political culture.
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Public administration.
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Sub-Saharan Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315723365 |
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1315723360 |
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