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Summary:

"Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? Looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa, this book advances a novel answer to this question: communities are better able to coordinate around basic service delivery when their formal jurisdictional boundaries overlap with informal social institutions, or norms. This book identifies the precolonial past as the driver of striking subnational variation in the present because these social institutions only encompass the many villages of the local state in areas that were once home to precolonial polities. Drawing on a multi-method research design, the book develops and tests a theory of institutional congruence to document how the past shapes contemporary elite approaches to redistribution within the local state. Where precolonial kingdoms left behind collective identities and dense social networks, local elites find it easier to cooperate following decentralization"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A theory of institutional congruence
• Bringing old states back in: Senegal's precolonial polities
• The politics of decentralization in Senegal
• Political narratives across rural Senegal
• Delivering schools and clinics in rural Senegal
• Congruence and incongruence in action
• Decompressing legacies of public goods delivery,1880-2012
• Institutional congruence beyond Senegal
• Conclusion
• Appendix.

Author/Creator:

Wilfahrt, Martha , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Precolonial legacies in postcolonial politics: representation and redistribution in decentralized West Africa [by Wilfahrt, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Precolonial legacies in postcolonial politics [by Wilfahrt, M.] (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 — ISBN 9781108996983; LCCN 2021024671)

Related Series:

Cambridge studies in comparative politics

Subjects:

Decentralization in government — Senegal

Local government — Senegal

Public administration — Senegal

Group identity — Political aspects — Senegal

Elite (Social sciences) — Political activity — Senegal

Postcolonialism — Senegal

Decentralization in government

Local government

Public administration

Group identity — Political aspects

Group identity

Elite (Social sciences) — Political activity

Elite (Social sciences)

Postcolonialism

Senegal

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

JQ3396.A56 D428 2021

ISBNs:

9781316518151 (hardcover)
1316518159 (hardcover)
9781108995498 (paperback)
1108995497 (paperback)
9781108996983 (electronic publication) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021024670

OCLC Numbers:

1266191739