Twilight institutions : public authority and local politics in Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lund, Christian
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

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.