Real governance and practical norms in sub-Saharan Africa : the game of the rules

Author(s)

• Herdt, Tom de
• Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre

Bibliographic Information

Real governance and practical norms in sub-Saharan Africa : the game of the rules

edited by Tom de Herdt and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

（Routledge studies on African politics and international relations, 7）

Routledge, 2015

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• The game of the rules / Tom De Herdt & Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
• Practical norms : informal regulations within public bureaucracies (in Africa and beyond) / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
• Africanist traditionalist culturalism : analysis of a scientific ideology and a plea for an empirically grounded concept of culture encompassing practical norms / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
• Hybrid orders and practical norms : a Weberian view / Tom De Herdt
• Juggling with the norms : informal payment and everyday governance of healthcare facilities in Niger / Eric Komlavi Hahonou
• The king is not a kinsman : multiple accountabilities and practical norms in West African bureaucracies / Giorgio Blundo
• Ethnography of everyday ethics in a South African medical ward / Frédéric Le Marcis and Julien Grard
• Managing with escapes : human rights and the practical norms of prison governance in Uganda / Tomas Max Martin
• In pursuit of arrangements that work : bricolage, practical norms and everyday water governance / Frances Cleaver
• Evident but elusive : practical norms in the Congolese gold sector / Sara Geenen
• Beyond corruption : the everyday life of a justice of the peace court in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Benjamin Rubbers and Emilie Gallez

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Although international development discourse considers the state as a crucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancy between the official norms of the state and public services and the actual practices of political elites and civil servants. This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms which make up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the concept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographic investigation of public bureaucracies, interactions between civil servants and users, and the daily functioning of the state in Africa. It demonstrates that practical norms are usually different from official norms, complementing, bypassing and even contradicting them. In addition, it explores the positive and negative effects of different aspects of this 'real governance'. This text will be of key interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of development, political science, anthropology and development studies, African studies, international comparative studies, implementation studies, and public policy.

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction: the game of the rules Tom De Herdt & Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Part I A New Concept? 2 Informal regulations of public bureaucracies in Africa and beyond: practical norms as an exploratory concept Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan 3 Traditionalist Africanist culturalism: Analysis of a scientific ideology and a plea for an empirically grounded concept of culture Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan 4 Hybrid orders and practical norms: a Weberian view Tom De Herdt Part II Real Governance in Practice 5 Juggling with the norms. Everyday practice in an emergency service in Niger Eric Hahonou 6 The King is not a kinsman
• Multiple accountabilities in the postcolonial State in Africa Giorgio Blundo 7 Ethnography of everyday ethics in a South African Medical Ward Frederic Le Marcis and Julien Grard 8 Local prison governance with global human rights - the merging of professional and practical norms in Ugandan prisons Tomas Max Martin 9 The evolution of practical norms through bricolage: 'good' local water governance in Zimbabwe Frances Cleaver 10 Evident but elusive: practical norms in the gold sector in South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo Sara Geenen 11 Beyond Corruption. The everyday life of a court of the peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo Benjamin Rubbers and Emilie Gallez

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB19201803
• ISBN:
  • 9781138852587
• LCCN: 2014046347
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 268 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JQ1875
  • DC23 : 351.967
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Public administration -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Bureaucracy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Civil service -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Administrative agencies -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • LCSH : Political culture -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB0755174X