| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 440 pages) |
| Series |
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; volume 12 |
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African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 12
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| Contents |
Studying the dynamics of African bureaucracies : an introduction to states at work / Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- Ethnographies of public services in Africa : an emerging research paradigm / Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- Seeing like a state agent : the ethnography of reform in Senegal's forestry services / Giorgio Blundo -- Factionalism and staff success in a Nigerian university : a departmental case study / Chris Willott -- Working in neopatrimonial settings : public sector staff perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda / Ole Therkildsen -- "We make do and keep going!" Inventive practices and ordered informality in the functioning of the district courts in Niamey and Zinger (Niger) / Oumarou Hamani -- "I take an oath to the state, not the government" : career trajectories and professional ethics of Ghanaian public servants / Carola Lentz -- "We must run while others walk" : African civil servants, state ideologies and bureaucratic practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s / Andreas Eckert -- Sedimentation, fragmentation and normative double-binds in (West) African public services / Thomas Bierschenk -- The politics of reform: a case study of bureaucracy at the ministry of basic education in Cameroon / Helene Charton -- Building state capacities? The case of the poverty reduction unit in Mali / Isaline Bergamaschi -- A breeding ground for revenue reliability? Cameroonian veterinary agents and tax officials in the face of reform / Jose-Maria Munoz -- Old-school bureaucrats and technocrats in Malawi : civil service reform in practice / Gerhard Anders -- Teachers unions and the selective appropriation of public service reforms in Benin / Azizou Chabi Imorou -- The state that works : a 'pockets of effectiveness' perspective on Nigeria and beyond / Michael Roll -- The delivery state in Africa : interface bureaucrats, professional cultures and the bureaucratic mode of governance / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan |
| Summary |
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public administration -- Africa
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Bureaucracy -- Africa
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Economic development -- Africa
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State, The.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Bureaucracy
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Economic development
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Economic policy
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Politics and government
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Public administration
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State, The
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
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Africa -- Economic policy
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bierschenk, Thomas, editor
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Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, editor
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| ISBN |
9789004264960 |
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9004264965 |
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9781306447607 |
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1306447607 |
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