05270nam 2200733 450 991040407130332120200903223051.090-04-26496-5(CKB)3710000000088989(EBL)1633850(SSID)ssj0001080922(PQKBManifestationID)11681027(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001080922(PQKBWorkID)11071740(PQKB)11226919(nllekb)BRILL9789004264960(Au-PeEL)EBL1633850(CaPaEBR)ebr10837907(CaONFJC)MIL576011(OCoLC)870646864(ScCtBLL)9451e7de-3166-404f-9260-d8e6bb9bbd13(MiAaPQ)EBC1633850(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33785(PPN)178932418(EXLCZ)99371000000008898920131119d2014 uy| 0engurun####uuuuatxtccrStates at work dynamics of African bureaucracies /edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de SardanBrill2014Boston :Brill,2014.1 online resource (454 p.)Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies,1574-6925 ;volume 12Includes index.90-04-26478-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focusing 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.African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;v. 12.Public administrationAfricaBureaucracyAfricaEconomic developmentAfricaState, TheAfricaPolitics and government1960-AfricaEconomic policySociety & culture: generalPublic administrationBureaucracyEconomic developmentState, The.351.6Bierschenk Thomasedt956298Bierschenk Thomas956298Olivier de Sardan Jean-Pierre471616MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910404071303321States at work2165261UNINA