Where there is no government
Subtitle: enforcing property rights in common law Africa
By: Sandra F. Joireman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780199782482
Subjects: Law and legislation; Land tenure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonization and the myth of the customary; title: "Under the circumstances, we do what we can" : entrepreneurial bureaucrats and the allocation of property rights; title: Property rights enforcement by other means : the role of non-governmental organizations; title: Private enforcement of property rights : the demand for specialists in violence; title: In search of order : state systems of property rights enforcement and their failings.