States at work :  dynamics of African bureaucracies / 
edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan. 
 -  c2014. 
 - xiv, 440 pages :  ill. ;  24 cm 
 - Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ;  volume 12 .
 - African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;  v. 12. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/> Studying the dynamics of African bureaucracies : an introduction to states at work /  Ethnographies of public services in Africa : an emerging research paradigm /  Seeing like a state agent : the ethnography of reform in Senegal's forestry services /  Factionalism and staff success in a Nigerian university : a departmental case study /  Working in neopatrimonial settings : public sector staff perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda /  "We make do and keep going!" Inventive practices and ordered informality in the functioning of the district courts in Niamey snd Zinder (Niger) /  "I take an oath to the state, not the government" : career trajectories and professional ethics of Ghanaian public servants /  "We must run while others walk" : African civil servants, state ideologies and bureaucratic practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s /  Sedimentation, fragmentation and normative double-binds in (West) African public services /  The politics of reform: a case study of bureaucracy at the ministry of basic education in Cameroon /  Building state capacities? The case of the poverty reduction unit in Mali /  A breeding ground for revenue reliability? Cameroonian veterinary agents and tax officials in the face of reform /  Old-school bureaucrats and technocrats in Malawi : civil service reform in practice /  Teachers unions and the selective appropriation of public service reforms in Benin /  The state that works : a 'pockets of effectiveness' perspective on Nigeria and beyond /  The delivery state in Africa : interface bureaucrats, professional cultures and the bureaucratic mode of governance /  Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --  Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --  Giorgio Blundo --  Chris Willott --  Ole Therkildsen --  Oumarou Hamani --  Carola Lentz --  Andreas Eckert --  Thomas Bierschenk --  Helene Charton --  Isaline Bergamaschi --  Jose-Maria Munoz --  Gerhard Anders --  Azizou Chabi Imorou --  Michael Roll --  Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004264786 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9789004264960 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013046380 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public administration--Africa.<br/>Bureaucracy--Africa.<br/>Economic development--Africa.<br/>State, The.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Politics and government--1960-<br/>Africa--Economic policy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JQ1875  / .S73 2014