States at Work : Dynamics of African Bureaucracies

• Tác giả: Thomas Bierschenk, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9004264960
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 351.6 Public administration
• Thông tin xuất bản: LEIDEN ; BOSTON : Brill, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 237833
• Chủ đề: 1. Politics & government

Tóm tắt

 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.