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Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa : = risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa :/ Lauren M. MacLean.
Reminder of title:	risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire /
remainder title:	Informal Institutions & Citizenship in Rural Africa
Author:	MacLean, Lauren M.,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Villages - Ghana. -
Subject:	Ghana - Rural conditions. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511730368
ISBN:	9780511730368 (ebook)

Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa : = risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire /
MacLean, Lauren M.,

Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa :risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire /Informal Institutions & Citizenship in Rural AfricaLauren M. MacLean. - 1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. - Cambridge studies in comparative politics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The informal institutions of reciprocity: a quantitative puzzle and analysis -- Local conflicts over the meaning of reciprocity: a qualitative analysis of change -- The legacies of the colonial administrative state in constructing the citizen, family, and community roles -- The construction and retrenchment of state social service provision and the unintended consequences for reciprocity -- The empire of the young: contrasting legacies of state agricultural policy for local capitalism and reciprocity -- Transformations of the informal institutions of reciprocity and the implications for citizenship.

This book challenges previous assumptions about institutions, social capital, and the nature of the African state by investigating the history of political and economic change in villages on either side of the Ghana-Cote d'Ivoire border. Prior to European colonial rule, these Akan villages had very similar political and cultural institutions. By the late 1990s, however, Lauren M. MacLean found puzzling differences in the informal institutions of reciprocity and indigenous notions of citizenship. MacLean argues that divergent histories of state formation not only shape how villagers help each other but also influence how local groups and communities define citizenship and then choose to engage with the state on an everyday basis. She examines the historical construction of the state role in mediating risk at the local level across three policy areas: political administration, social service delivery, and agriculture.

ISBN: 9780511730368 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800673
Villages
--Ghana.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800669
Ghana
--Rural conditions.

LC Class. No.: HN832.A8 / M33 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76/209667

Informal institutions and citizenship in rural Africa : = risk and reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire /
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