States at work
Subtitle: dynamics of African bureaucracies
By: edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies -- volume 12; African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) -- v. 12.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9789004264786; 9789004264960
Subjects: Public administration; Bureaucracy; Politics and government; Economic policy; Economic development; The State
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying the dynamics of African bureaucracies : an introduction to states at work  -- Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan; title: Ethnographies of public services in Africa : an emerging research paradigm  -- Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan; title: Seeing like a state agent : the ethnography of reform in Senegal's forestry services  -- Giorgio Blundo; title: Factionalism and staff success in a Nigerian university : a departmental case study  -- Chris Willott; title: Working in neopatrimonial settings : public sector staff perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda  -- Ole Therkildsen; title: "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; title: "I take an oath to the state, not the government" : career trajectories and professional ethics of Ghanaian public servants  -- Carola Lentz; title: "We must run while others walk" : African civil servants, state ideologies and bureaucratic practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s  -- Andreas Eckert; title: Sedimentation, fragmentation and normative double-binds in (West) African public services  -- Thomas Bierschenk; title: The politics of reform: a case study of bureaucracy at the ministry of basic education in Cameroon  -- Helene Charton; title: Building state capacities? The case of the poverty reduction unit in Mali  -- Isaline Bergamaschi; title: A breeding ground for revenue reliability? Cameroonian veterinary agents and tax officials in the face of reform  -- Jose-Maria Munoz; title: Old-school bureaucrats and technocrats in Malawi : civil service reform in practice  -- Gerhard Anders; title: Teachers unions and the selective appropriation of public service reforms in Benin  -- Azizou Chabi Imorou; title: The state that works : a 'pockets of effectiveness' perspective on Nigeria and beyond  -- Michael Roll; title: The delivery state in Africa : interface bureaucrats, professional cultures and the bureaucratic mode of governance -- Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.