States at work : : dynamics of African bureaucracies / / edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focusing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and p...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, volume 12 |
|---|---|
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 12. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of 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 snd Zinder (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.