States at Work
Dynamics of African Bureaucracies
Paperback Engels 2014 9789004264786Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
African Bureaucracies in Comparative Perspective
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
Bureaucrats at Work
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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 and 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
Bureaucracies at Work
The Politics of Reform: A Case Study of Bureaucracy at the Ministry of Basic Education in Cameroon
Hélène 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
José-María Muñoz
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
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan