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.
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Traveling Models and Practical Norms
The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond
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The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction. Anthropology of Social Engineering
- 1. Traveling Models and the Test of Contexts
- 2. An Exploratory Concept: Practical Norms
- 3. Case Study: Practical Norms in a Public Service (Niger)
- 4. Behind Practical Norms: The Plurality of Social Logics
- 5. The Delivery of Goods of General Interest: Modes of Governance and Delivery Configurations
- 6. The Bureaucratic-Statist Mode of Governance
- 7. Toward Reform from Within
- Conclusion. The Perspective of Discordance, an Anthropology of Dissonances, Gaps, Contradictions, and Diversities
- References
- Index
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