States at work dynamics of African bureaucracies
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 p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill
2014
2014. |
| Colección: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 12. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427467906719 |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004264960 |
