States at Work
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-298662025-07-21T15:57:45Z States at Work de Sardan, Jean-Pierre Olivier Bierschenk, Thomas Political Science General thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government 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. 2021-02-10T13:36:22Z 2021-02-10T13:36:22Z 2020-12-15T13:30:07Z 2020 book OCN: 1247573169 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43448 9789004264960 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29866 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43448/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43448/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43448/1/external_content.pdf Brill Brill 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 Knowledge Unlatched 9789004264960 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Brill open access |
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| title | States at Work |
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| title_short | States at Work |
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| topic | Political Science General thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government |
| topic_facet | Political Science General thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government |
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