TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bierschenk,Thomas
AU  - Olivier de Sardan,Jean-Pierre
TI  - States at work: dynamics of African bureaucracies 
T2  - Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
SN  - 9789004264786 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JQ1875 .S73 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Africa
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Economic development
KW  - State, The
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
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