Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in AfricaISBN: 978-1-4051-5528-1
Paperback
288 pages
May 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Focuses on the condition of public authority in Africa
- Investigates how public authority actually works in the face of
obvious state failure and impending collapse
- Approaches public authority ‘from below’, exploring
a variety of concrete encounters between forms of public authority
and the more or less mundane practices of ordinary people
- Examines the institutions that operate in the twilight between state and society, between public and private