Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa
Subtitle: risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
By: Lauren M. MacLean
Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politics; Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521192965
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: The informal institutions of reciprocity: a quantitative puzzle and analysis; title: Local conflicts over the meaning of reciprocity: a qualitative analysis of change; title: The legacies of the colonial administrative state in constructing the citizen, family, and community roles; title: The construction and retrenchment of state social service provision and the unintended consequences for reciprocity; title: The empire of the young: contrasting legacies of state agricultural policy for local capitalism and reciprocity; title: Transformations of the informal institutions of reciprocity and the implications for citizenship.