Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 295 g
Reihe: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
An Ethnography of Civil Service Reform in Africa
Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 295 g
Reihe: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
ISBN: 978-90-04-17982-0
Verlag: Brill
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungsorganisation und -politik, Verwaltungslehre
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Glossary and abbreviations ix
Map of Malawi x
1 INTRODUCTION: UNPACKING GOOD GOVERNANCE 1
Civil servants as implementers and “target population” 1
The “dysfunctional” African state 3
Good governance as technology 5
Field sites 8
Studying up, follow the policy 9
Basic information about the civil service 11
Outline 14
2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 15
Banda’s rule and the “New Malawi” 16
The results of two decades of structural adjustment 19
The civil service – from localisation to good governance 24
3 CONSTRUCTING COUNTRY OWNERSHIP 28
Introduction 28
The emergence of a concept 30
Conditionality and country ownership 34
The normativity of numbers 40
The discovery of the “C word” 42
Conclusions 47
4 THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 49
Deconstructing policy implementation 49
Retrenchment of employees made redundant 51
The introduction of new housing allowances 55
Increasing fragmentation of the civil service 60
Conclusions 68
5 ERODING SALARIES AND DOING BUSINESS 70
The African entrepreneurial spirit 70
The meaning of having a job in the civil service 73
“How to make ends meet” 83
Winners and losers of economic liberalisation 89
Conclusions 97
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6 “DISTANCE SAVES ME” 99
Introduction 99
Kubwerera kumudzi 101
Education and social stratification 110
The importance of associations 111
The nature of kinship duties 115
Conclusions 120
7 THE DEMOCRATISATION OF APPROPRIATION 122
Introduction 122
“Bad politics” 124
The office mores – a parallel social and moral order 130
A “primoridial public sphere”or a patchwork of moralities? 135
Conclusions 139
8 CONCLUSIONS: THE STATE IN SOCIETY 141
The paradoxical policies of the World Bank and the IMF 142
A note on theorising the postcolonial state 148
References 151
Index 163