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Title States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies / edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 440 pages)
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Series Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; volume 12
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 12.
Note Includes index.
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.
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Public administration -- Africa.
Bureaucracy -- Africa.
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Africa -- Economic policy.
Economic development -- Africa.
State, The.
Administration publique (Science) -- Afrique.
Bureaucratie -- Afrique.
Afrique -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-
Afrique -- Politique économique.
Développement économique -- Afrique.
État.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Bureaucracy
Economic development
Economic policy
Politics and government
Public administration
State, The
Africa https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3
Chronological Term Since 1960
Added Author Bierschenk, Thomas, editor.
Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre, editor.
Other Form: Print version: States at work 9789004264786 (DLC) 2013046380 (OCoLC)864676581
ISBN 9789004264960 (electronic bk.)
9004264965 (electronic bk.)
9781306447607 (MyiLibrary)
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