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245	0	0	_aStates at work : _bdynamics of African bureaucracies / _cedited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
263			_a1402--
264		1	_aBoston : _bBrill, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; _vv. 12
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material -- _tStudying the Dynamics of African Bureaucracies. An Introduction to States at Work / _rThomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- _tEthnographies of Public Services in Africa: An Emerging Research Paradigm / _rThomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- _tSeeing like a State Agent: The Ethnography of Reform in Senegal’s Forestry Services / _rGiorgio Blundo -- _tFactionalism and Staff Success in a Nigerian University: A Departmental Case Study / _rChris Willott -- _tWorking in Neopatrimonial Settings: Public Sector Staff Perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda / _rOle Therkildsen -- _t“We make do and keep going!” Inventive Practices and Ordered Informality in the Functioning of the District Courts in Niamey and Zinder (Niger) / _rOumarou Hamani -- _t“I take an oath to the state, not the government”: Career Trajectories and Professional Ethics of Ghanaian Public Servants / _rCarola Lentz -- _t“We must run while others walk”: African Civil Servants, State Ideologies and Bureaucratic Practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s / _rAndreas Eckert -- _tSedimentation, Fragmentation and Normative Double-Binds in (West) African Public Services / _rThomas Bierschenk -- _tThe Politics of Reform: A Case Study of Bureaucracy at the Ministry of Basic Education in Cameroon / _rHélène Charton -- _tBuilding State Capacities? The Case of the Poverty Reduction Unit in Mali / _rIsaline Bergamaschi -- _tA Breeding Ground for Revenue Reliability? Cameroonian Veterinary Agents and Tax Officials in the Face of Reform / _rJosé-María Muñoz -- _tOld-school Bureaucrats and Technocrats in Malawi: Civil Service Reform in Practice / _rGerhard Anders -- _tTeachers’ Unions and the Selective Appropriation of Public Service Reforms in Benin / _rAzizou Chabi Imorou -- _tThe State that Works: A ‘Pockets of Effectiveness’ Perspective on Nigeria and Beyond / _rMichael Roll -- _tThe Delivery State in Africa. Interface Bureaucrats, Professional Cultures and the Bureaucratic Mode of Governance / _rJean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan -- _tIndex of Names and Places.
520			_aStates at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and practical norms, operational routines in offices, career patterns and modes of appointment; how bureaucrats themselves perceive and deliver goods and services and interact with service users; the accumulation of public administration reforms and how the different bureaucratic corps react to the ‘good governance’ discourse and new public management policies; the consequences of these reforms for the daily working of state bureaucracies and for the civil servants’ identities and modes of accountability; and the space that exists for bottom-up micro-reforms that build on local innovations or informal arrangements.
650		0	_aPublic administration _zAfrica.
650		0	_aBureaucracy _zAfrica.
650		0	_aEconomic development _zAfrica.
650		0	_aState, The.
651		0	_aAfrica _xPolitics and government _y1960-
651		0	_aAfrica _xEconomic policy.
700	1		_aBierschenk, Thomas.
700	1		_aOlivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tStates at Work: Dynamics of African Bureaucracies _dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014, _z9789004264786
830		0	_aAfrica-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies _v12.
830		0	_aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262508.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004264960
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