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Brill
Language
English
Pages
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Subjects
Public administration, Bureaucracy, Politics and government, Economic policy, Economic development, The State, Society & culture: general, State, the, Africa, politics and government, Africa, economic policy
Places
Africa
Times
1960-

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies -- volume 12, African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) -- v. 12.

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Dewey Decimal Class
351.6
Library of Congress
JQ1875 .S73 2014, JQ1875.S73 2014

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xiv, 440 pages
Number of pages
440

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OL31181032M
ISBN 13
9789004264786, 9789004264960
LCCN
2013046380

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