Full Description
Public policies, development projects, and NGO interventions often have large gaps between the planning and execution. Standardized public policies, especially development ones, ignore the multiple contexts in which they are implemented. Local actors (those targeted by public policies or responsible for implementing them) play a major role in the implementation of planning and execution. Their many strategies for circumventing official directives and protocols follow implicit "practical norms" that are ignored by international experts. This book examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines, in Africa and beyond.
Contents
Introduction: Anthropology of Social Engineering
Chapter 1. Traveling Models and the Test of Contexts
Chapter 2. An Exploratory Concept: Practical Norms
Chapter 3. Case Study: Practical Norms in a Public Service (Niger)
Chapter 4. Behind Practical Norms: The Plurality of Social Logics
Chapter 5. The Delivery of Goods of General Interest: Modes of Governance and Delivery Configurations
Chapter 6. The Bureaucratic-Statist Mode of Governance
Chapter 7. Towards Reform from Within
Conclusion: The Perspective of Discordance, an Anthropology of Dissonances, Gaps, Contradictions and Diversities
References
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