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Author MacLean, Lauren M

Title Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa : risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire / Lauren M. MacLean
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Contents The informal institutions of reciprocity: a quantitative puzzle and analysis -- Local conflicts over the meaning of reciprocity: a qualitative analysis of change -- The legacies of the colonial administrative state in constructing the citizen, family, and community roles -- The construction and retrenchment of state social service provision and the unintended consequences for reciprocity -- The empire of the young: contrasting legacies of state agricultural policy for local capitalism and reciprocity -- Transformations of the informal institutions of reciprocity and the implications for citizenship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index
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Subject Villages -- Ghana
Borderlands -- Ghana
Villages -- Côte d'Ivoire
Borderlands -- Côte d'Ivoire
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Borderlands
Rural conditions
Villages
SUBJECT Ghana -- Rural conditions
Côte d'Ivoire -- Rural conditions
Subject Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780521192965
052119296X
9780511729843
0511729847