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Twilight Institutions : Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa, Paperback / softback Book

Twilight Institutions : Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa Paperback / softback

Edited by Christian (University of Roskilde) Lund

Part of the Development and Change Special Issues series

Paperback / softback

Description

Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private. 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

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