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Twilight Institutions – Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa de C Lund

Twilight Institutions – Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa: Development and Change Special Issues

Autor C Lund
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 2007
State and society are powerful concepts, but actual public institutions in Africa defy clear-cut distinctions. Questions of citizenship, property and security are not the preserve of the state. While formal government is often weak and sometimes failing, public authority is dislocated to, or appropriated by, other institutions that endeavour to act as the state. Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how a range of institutions seek voluntary compliance to their authority, and claim legitimacy in an attempt to govern.

This volume approaches public authority 'from below', exploring a variety of concrete encounters between forms of public authority and the more or less mundane practices of ordinary people. The expertly written essays in this collection reflect upon the failure of government institutions to maintain control; while there is no shortage of institutions attempting to exercise authority, none is continuously successful. Fading in and out of power, these institutions operate between public and private in the twilight between state and society

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405155281
ISBN-10: 1405155280
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria Development and Change Special Issues

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

undergraduates, graduates, and academics interested in Africa; development workers looking to further their understanding of social movements/institutions in Africa

Notă biografică

Christian Lund is Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has conducted specialized research on socio-legal processes of conflict and their relationship to policy and politics, institutional arrangements of property, and natural resources management. He has gained extensive field experience while working in Niger, Ghana, Bur¬kina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. He is the author of Law, Power and Politics in Niger - Land Struggles and the Rural Code, 1998, and the co-editor of Negotiating Property in Africa, 2002.

Descriere

Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private.