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Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa /
Lund, Christian
Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa / edited by Christian Lund. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006. - 272 p. ; 23 cm.
Papers originally presented at a Ph.D. seminar at the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, in 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Twilight institutions : an introduction / Christian Lund -- Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa / Christian Lund -- The politics of vigilance in southeastern Nigeria / David Pratten -- Reordering society : vigilantism and expressions of sovereignty in Port Elizabeth's townships / Lars Buur -- Negotiating authority between UNHCR and "the people" / Simon Turner -- "It was Satan that took the people" : the making of public authority in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- Dealing with the local state : the informal privatization of street-level bureaucracies in Senegal / Giorgio Blundo -- Decentralization, local taxation and citizenship in Senegal / Kristine Juul -- Contested sources of authority : re-claiming state sovereignty by formalizing traditional authority in Mozambique / Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed -- State making and the politics of the frontier in central Benin / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Decentralization, the state and conflicts over local boundaries in northern Ghana / Carola Lentz -- Strong bar,weak state lawyers, liberalism and state formation in Zambia / Jeremy Gould.
9781405155281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006035612
Local government--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
Central-local government relations--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
Law enforcement--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
State, The--Congresses.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Politics and government--1960---Congresses.
320.80967 LUN 2009 21603 / 21603
Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa / edited by Christian Lund. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006. - 272 p. ; 23 cm.
Papers originally presented at a Ph.D. seminar at the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, in 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Twilight institutions : an introduction / Christian Lund -- Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa / Christian Lund -- The politics of vigilance in southeastern Nigeria / David Pratten -- Reordering society : vigilantism and expressions of sovereignty in Port Elizabeth's townships / Lars Buur -- Negotiating authority between UNHCR and "the people" / Simon Turner -- "It was Satan that took the people" : the making of public authority in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- Dealing with the local state : the informal privatization of street-level bureaucracies in Senegal / Giorgio Blundo -- Decentralization, local taxation and citizenship in Senegal / Kristine Juul -- Contested sources of authority : re-claiming state sovereignty by formalizing traditional authority in Mozambique / Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed -- State making and the politics of the frontier in central Benin / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Decentralization, the state and conflicts over local boundaries in northern Ghana / Carola Lentz -- Strong bar,weak state lawyers, liberalism and state formation in Zambia / Jeremy Gould.
9781405155281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006035612
Local government--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
Central-local government relations--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
Law enforcement--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
State, The--Congresses.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Politics and government--1960---Congresses.
320.80967 LUN 2009 21603 / 21603