ISBN:
9781138714410
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9781315723365
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9781138852587
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 268 Seiten
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in African politics and international relations 7
Series Statement:
Routledge studies on African politics and international relations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Herdt, Tom Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa
DDC:
351.967
Keywords:
Public administration
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Bureaucracy
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Civil service
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Administrative agencies
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Political culture
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Verwaltung
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Bürokratie
Abstract:
"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 civil servants and users, and the daily functioning of the state in Africa. It demonstrates that practical norms are usually different from official norms, complementing, bypassing and even contradicting them. In addition, it explores the positive and negative effects of different aspects of this 'real governance'. This text will be of key interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of development, political science, anthropology and development studies, African studies, international comparative studies, implementation studies, and public policy"--
Note:
Literaturangaben, Index
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Introduction : the game of the rules
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Traditionalist Africanist culturalism : analysis of a scientific ideology and a plea for an empirically grounded concept of culture
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Hybrid orders and practical norms : a Weberian view
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Juggling with the norms : everyday practice in an emergency service in Niger
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The king is not a kinsman : multiple accountabilities in the postcolonial state in Africa
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Ethnography of everyday ethics in a South African medical ward
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Local prison governance with global human rights : the merging of professional and practical norms in Ugandan prisons
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The evolution of practical norms through bricolage : "good" local water governance in Zimbabwe
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Evident but elusive : practical norms in the gold sector in South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Beyond corruption : the everyday life of a court of the peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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