TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lund, Christian
AU  - Lund,Christian
TI  - Twilight institutions: public authority and local politics in Africa 
SN  - 9781405155281 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 320.80967 LUN 2009 21603 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Local government
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Central-local government relations
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - State, The
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006035612.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006035612-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006035612-b.html
ER  -