ISBN:
9789004264960
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (454 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies v.12
Parallel Title:
States at work
DDC:
351.09
Keywords:
Public administration -- Africa
;
Bureaucracy -- Africa
;
Economic development -- Africa
;
State, The
;
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
;
Africa -- Economic policy
;
Africa ; Economic policy
;
Africa ; Politics and government ; 1960-
;
Bureaucracy ; Africa
;
Economic development ; Africa
;
Public administration ; Africa
;
State, The
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Verwaltung
;
Afrika
;
Bürokratie
;
Afrika
;
Öffentlicher Dienst
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- What others say about States at Work -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Part One African Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective -- Studying the Dynamics of African Bureaucracies.An Introduction to States at Work -- Ethnographies of Public Services in Africa: An Emerging Research Paradigm -- Part Two Bureaucrats at Work -- Seeing like a State Agent: The Ethnography of Reform in Senegal's Forestry Services -- Factionalism and Staff Success in a Nigerian University: A Departmental Case Study -- Working in Neopatrimonial Settings: Public Sector Staff Perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda -- "We make do and keep going!" Inventive Practices and Ordered Informality in the Functioning of the District Courts in Niamey and Zinder (Niger) -- "I take an oath to the state, not the government": Career Trajectories and Professional Ethics of Ghanaian Public Servants -- "We must run while others walk": African Civil Servants, State Ideologies and Bureaucratic Practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s -- Sedimentation, Fragmentation and Normative Double-Binds in (West) African Public Services -- Part Three Bureaucracies at Work -- The Politics of Reform: A Case Study of Bureaucracy at the Ministry of Basic Education in Cameroon -- Building State Capacities? The Case of the Poverty Reduction Unit in Mali -- A Breeding Ground for Revenue Reliability? Cameroonian Veterinary Agents and Tax Officials in the Face of Reform -- Old-school Bureaucrats and Technocrats in Malawi: Civil Service Reform in Practice -- Teachers' Unions and the Selective Appropriation of Public Service Reforms in Benin -- The State that Works: A 'Pockets of Effectiveness' Perspective on Nigeria and Beyond -- The Delivery State in Africa. Interface Bureaucrats, Professional Cultures and the Bureaucratic Mode of Governance -- Index of Names and Places.
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