States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies /
States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies /
edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
- 1 online resource.
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 12 .
- Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 12. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262508. .
Includes index.
Preliminary Material -- 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 and 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 / Index of Names and Places. 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 -- Hélène Charton -- Isaline Bergamaschi -- José-María Muñoz -- Gerhard Anders -- Azizou Chabi Imorou -- Michael Roll -- Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --
States 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.
9789004264960 (electronic book) (print)
10.1163/9789004264960 DOI
2013046380
Public administration--Africa.
Bureaucracy--Africa.
Economic development--Africa.
State, The.
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Africa--Economic policy.
JQ1875 / .S73 2014
351.6
Includes index.
Preliminary Material -- 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 and 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 / Index of Names and Places. 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 -- Hélène Charton -- Isaline Bergamaschi -- José-María Muñoz -- Gerhard Anders -- Azizou Chabi Imorou -- Michael Roll -- Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --
States 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.
9789004264960 (electronic book) (print)
10.1163/9789004264960 DOI
2013046380
Public administration--Africa.
Bureaucracy--Africa.
Economic development--Africa.
State, The.
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Africa--Economic policy.
JQ1875 / .S73 2014
351.6