Producing Stateness
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Producing Stateness
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Author : Jan Beek
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Producing Stateness written by Jan Beek and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Jan Beek’s book explores everyday police work in an African country and analyses how police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce stateness. Drawing on highly readable ethnographic descriptions, the book shows that Ghanaian police practices often involve the exchange of money (bribes), the use of violence and the influence of politicians. However, such informal practices allow police officers to deal with the inconsistent necessities and the social context of their work. Ultimately, Ghanaian police officers are also inspired by a bureaucratic ethos and their practices are guided by it. Stateness, the book argues, is a quality of organizations, gradually emerging out of such everyday encounters. Producing Stateness allows a close look at the realities of police work in Africa and provides surprising insights into the rationalities of policing and state bureaucracies everywhere.
The Postcolonial African State In Transition
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Author : Amy Niang
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-11-02
The Postcolonial African State In Transition written by Amy Niang and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-02 with Political Science categories.
The Postcolonial African State in Transition offers a new perspective on a set of fundamental, albeit old questions with salient contemporary resonance: what is the nature of the postcolonial state? How did it come about? And more crucially, the book poses an often neglected question: what was the postcolonial African state internally built against? Through a detailed historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the African state, rendering centralization processes as always transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavours. In Africa and elsewhere in the colonial and postcolonial world, the centralized sovereign state has become something of a meta-model that bears the imprint of necessity and determinism. This book argues that there is nothing natural, linear, conventional or intrinsically consensual about the centralized state form. In fact, the African state emerged, and was erected against, and at the expense of a variety of authority structures and forms of self-governance. The state has sustained itself through destructive practices, internal colonization, and in fact the production and alienation of a range of internal others.
Making Sense Of The Arab State
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Author : Steven Heydemann
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2024-07-30
Making Sense Of The Arab State written by Steven Heydemann and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-30 with Political Science categories.
No region in the world has been more hostile to democracy, more dominated by military and security institutions, or weaker on economic development and inclusive governance than the Middle East. Why have Arab states been so oppressively strong in some areas but so devastatingly weak in others? How do those patterns affect politics, economics, and society across the region? The state stands at the center of the analysis of politics in the Middle East, but has rarely been the primary focus of systematic theoretical analysis. Making Sense of the Arab State brings together top scholars from diverse theoretical orientations to address some of the most critically important questions facing the region today. The authors grapple with enduring questions such as the uneven development of state capacity, the failures of developmentalism and governance, the centrality of regime security and survival concerns, the excesses of surveillance and control, and the increasing personalization of power. Making Sense of the Arab State will be a must-read for scholars of the Middle East and of comparative politics more broadly.
The Making Of Hybrid Stateness Sources Of Police Performance In The Conurbano
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Making Of Hybrid Stateness Sources Of Police Performance In The Conurbano written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Abstract: By default, stateness is usually considered as a state's legal ability to deliver goods or services. This understanding implies that stateness is structured by the rule of law. However, as historical and current examples show, this legal ability often relies on practices that one would define as illegal and that any measure of "stateness" must take into account. Using the case of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires as an example, I propose the notion of hybrid stateness i.e. an understanding of stateness that considers the state's ability to operate illegally. This short piece addresses the institutional and budgetary setting of the provincial police force and tackles the question of where the illegal resources for performing police's duties come from
The Emergence Of The State
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Author : Idrees Mousa Mohammed
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-01-01
The Emergence Of The State written by Idrees Mousa Mohammed and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with Political Science categories.
This book takes an interest in the collapse and formation of the state and is primarily concerned with exploring and comparing the emergence of Kosovo and South Sudan. It contends that both have emerged in the stateness problem experienced by Serbia and Sudan. It demonstrates that the collection of the following three variables has determined their emergence: The occurrence of violence in Serbia and Sudan; The external involvement in this circumstance; and The regional and global support for their emergence. The book develops an independent conceptual framework and deeply explores and compares the emergence of Kosovo and South Sudan. It provides valuable insights for the academic and policymaking communities, given its treatment of the significant collapse and formation of the state in the twenty-first century.
Handbook Of Infrastructures And Cities
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Author : Olivier Coutard
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-12
Handbook Of Infrastructures And Cities written by Olivier Coutard and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Political Science categories.
Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a broad discussion of infrastructure as social phenomena. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current ‘infrastructural turn’ and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development.
The Difficulty Of Measuring Governance And Stateness
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Difficulty Of Measuring Governance And Stateness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Performance standards categories.
Measures of governance and stateness have grown substantially in number over recent decade, and gained also greater importance in building public discourses and orienting decision-making processes. Yet there seems to be little agreement on what exactly these measures represent. This paper claims that the proliferation of metrics can only be understood against the conceptual hybridity and indeterminacy in which the notions of governance and stateness have entangled. To frame this creative disorder, the first part of the paper introduces the current debate on measuring governance and stateness. The second explores the sematic fields of the two concepts, while the third one provides an overview on existing measures and methodological questions. The fourth part explores normative demands and policy prescriptions linked to this production and the fifth section analyses in depth three different measures: The Rule of Law Index, the Sustainable Governance Indicators and the State Fragility Index. The sixth part concludes by summarising the relevance of exploring both conceptual and normative challenges in the use and production of these measures.
Afrasian Transformations
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-08-31
Afrasian Transformations written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-31 with Social Science categories.
Afrasian Transformations explores a dynamic nexus of transregional interactions that is reshaping political relations, economic flows and increasingly mobile lifeworlds on the one hand, and academic practices in African and Asian Studies as well as transregional research on the other.
The Difficulty Of Measuring Governance And Stateness
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Author : Debora Valentina Malito
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Difficulty Of Measuring Governance And Stateness written by Debora Valentina Malito and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Performance standards categories.
Measures of governance and stateness have grown substantially in number over recent decade, and gained also greater importance in building public discourses and orienting decision-making processes. Yet there seems to be little agreement on what exactly these measures represent. This paper claims that the proliferation of metrics can only be understood against the conceptual hybridity and indeterminacy in which the notions of governance and stateness have entangled. To frame this creative disorder, the first part of the paper introduces the current debate on measuring governance and stateness. The second explores the sematic fields of the two concepts, while the third one provides an overview on existing measures and methodological questions. The fourth part explores normative demands and policy prescriptions linked to this production and the fifth section analyses in depth three different measures: The Rule of Law Index, the Sustainable Governance Indicators and the State Fragility Index. The sixth part concludes by summarising the relevance of exploring both conceptual and normative challenges in the use and production of these measures.
Contemporary Japanese Thought
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Author : Richard Calichman
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005
Contemporary Japanese Thought written by Richard Calichman and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
The writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals and cover a range of disciplines addressing the political, historical and cultural issues that have dominated Japanese intellectual life.