Includes 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.
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States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies. ISBN 9789004264786. Published by Brill in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
