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Just publishedREAL GOVERNANCE AND PRACTICAL NORMS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICATHE GAME OF THE RULESEDITED BY TOM DE HERDT, JEAN-PIERRE OLIVIER DE SARDAN [1]Routledge - 2015 - 268 pagesSERIES: Routledge Studies in African Politics and InternationalRelationsAlthough international development discourse considers the state as acrucial development actor, there remains a significant discrepancybetween the official norms of the state and public services and theactual practices of political elites and civil servants.This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies andlegal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms whichmake up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that theconcept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographicinvestigation of public bureaucracies, interactions between civilservants and users, and the daily functioning of the state in Africa. Itdemonstrates that practical norms are usually different from officialnorms, complementing, bypassing and even contradicting them. Inaddition, it explores the positive and negative effects of differentaspects of this 'real governance'.This text will be of key interest to academics, students and researchersin the fields of development, political science, anthropology anddevelopment studies, African studies, international comparative studies,implementation studies, and public policy.1 Introduction: the game of the rules _Tom De Herdt &#38; Jean-PierreOlivier de Sardan_PART I A NEW CONCEPT?2 Informal regulations of public bureaucracies in Africa and beyond:practical norms as an exploratory concept _Jean-Pierre Olivier deSardan_3 Traditionalist Africanist culturalism: Analysis of a scientificideology and a plea for an empirically grounded concept of culture_Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan_4 Hybrid orders and practical norms: a Weberian view _Tom De Herdt_PART II REAL GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE5Juggling with the norms. Everyday practice in an emergency service inNiger _Eric Hahonou_6 The King is not a kinsman; Multiple accountabilities in thepostcolonial State in Africa _Giorgio Blundo_7 Ethnography of everyday ethics in a South African Medical Ward_Frédéric Le Marcis and Julien Grard_8 Local prison governance with global human rights - the merging ofprofessional and practical norms in Ugandan prisons _Tomas Max Martin_9 The evolution of practical norms through bricolage: 'good' local watergovernance in Zimbabwe _Frances Cleaver_10 Evident but elusive: practical norms in the gold sector inSouth-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo _Sara Geenen_11 Beyond Corruption. The everyday life of a court of the peace in theDemocratic Republic of Congo _Benjamin Rubbers and Emilie Gallez_Pour nous remonter une erreur de filtrage, veuillez vous rendre ici :http://f.security-mail.net/406mtokbU3A [2]