Pourquoi les projets de développement, les interventions des ONG ou les politiques
publiques nationales sont-ils tous soumis à d'importants écarts entre ce qui était prévu et ce …

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …

This chapter explains three layers of hybridity in the work of Max Weber. First, individual
motives are usually hybrid; individuals are neither rational nor blind norm-followers but both …

Empirical studies of public services and 'the state at work'(von Stein, see Bierschenk and
Olivier de Sardan, introduction) have, of course, been carried out for a long time. They …

Often overlooked by journalists and scholars, the police forces of the African continents are a
significant and little-studied phenomenon. This book seeks to redress that lacuna. The …

This article pieces together an understanding of everyday life grounded in the social
imagination and everyday experiences of informal transport workers (ITWs) in Lagos …

The Kouandé gendarmerie brigade was established in 1962. When we visited it in March
2009, it was manned by five gendarmes, of whom only four were present as one was on a …

In this chapter, we attempt to draw various comparative and theoretical conclusions from the
empirical studies on state apparatuses and the public service professions in West Africa …

The often low productivity of African public services is not the expression of a single and
uniform logic, but the result of numerous cumulated micro-differences. Like all social …

Jan Beek's book explores everyday police work in an African country and analyses how
police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce …