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States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies
- Title
- States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies / edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
- Publication
- Boston : Brill, [2014]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 440 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; volume 12
- Uniform Title
- African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 12.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and 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 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4430
- ISBN
- 9789004264786
- 9004264787
- 9004264965
- 9789004264960
- 9789004264960 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013046380
- OCLC
- 892523011
- Title
- States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies / edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
- Publisher
- Boston : Brill, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; volume 12African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 12.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1960
- Added Author
- Bierschenk, Thomas.Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4430