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dc.contributor.editorde Sardan, Jean-Pierre Olivier
dc.contributor.editorBierschenk, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-15T13:30:07Z
dc.date.available2020-12-15T13:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43448
dc.description.abstractStates 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science
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dc.titleStates at Work
dc.title.alternativeDynamics of African Bureaucracies
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByaf16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9789004264960
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
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oapen.identifier.isbn9789004264960
grantor.number103963


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