States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies /
edited by Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan.
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (454 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - 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.
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| ISBN | 90-04-26496-5
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