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  1. Precolonial legacies in postcolonial politics
    representation and redistribution in decentralized West Africa
    Author: Wilfahrt, Martha
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    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... more

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    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 "Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? This book advances a novel answer to this question by looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa: communities are better able to coordinate around basic service delivery when their formal jurisdictional boundaries overlap with informal social institutions, or norms of appropriate comportment in the public sphere demarcated by group boundaries. I advance a theory of institutional congruence to explain these differences, highlighting how twin mechanisms of a shared sense of social identification and dense network ties alter local elite behavior under decentralization. These attributes fall unevenly across space, however, meaning that institutional congruence only emerges in areas that were home to precolonial kingdoms where collective identities and social ties have persisted over time. I develop and test this argument through a multi-method research design to show that local politics of representation and redistribution are broader in cases of high congruence, but contentious and targeted in areas where it is low.

     
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  2. Precolonial legacies in postcolonial politics
    representation and redistribution in decentralized West Africa
    Author: Wilfahrt, Martha
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? This book advances a novel answer to this question by looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa: communities... more

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    "Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? This book advances a novel answer to this question by looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa: communities are better able to coordinate around basic service delivery when their formal jurisdictional boundaries overlap with informal social institutions, or norms of appropriate comportment in the public sphere demarcated by group boundaries. I advance a theory of institutional congruence to explain these differences, highlighting how twin mechanisms of a shared sense of social identification and dense network ties alter local elite behavior under decentralization. These attributes fall unevenly across space, however, meaning that institutional congruence only emerges in areas that were home to precolonial kingdoms where collective identities and social ties have persisted over time. I develop and test this argument through a multi-method research design to show that local politics of representation and redistribution are broader in cases of high congruence, but contentious and targeted in areas where it is low."

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108995498; 9781316518151
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    9781316518151
    Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Subjects: Dezentralisierung; Kommunalverwaltung; Kolonialismus; Entwicklung; Westafrika; Senegal; Decentralization in government; Local government; Public administration; Group identity; Elite (Social sciences); Postcolonialism
    Scope: xiii, 293 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index