Traveling Models and Practical Norms

The Misadventures of Social Engineering in Africa and Beyond

By: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

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Hardcover | 1 February 2025

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Public policies, development projects, and NGO interventions often have large gaps between the planning and execution. Standardized public policies, especially development ones, ignore the multiple contexts in which they are implemented. Local actors (those targeted by public policies or responsible for implementing them) play a major role in the implementation of planning and execution. Their many strategies for circumventing official directives and protocols follow implicit "practical norms" that are ignored by international experts. This book examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines, in Africa and beyond.

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"This is a very worthwhile book ... it brings together a new and very coherent argument around development. The sheer scale of Olivier de Sardan's ground-level immersion in the issues over five decades lends the book an incomparable rigor and depth." * David Lewis, London School of Economics

"This is a valuable book by a leading anthropologist of development, statecraft, and bureaucracy in West Africa. It is clearly something of a culmination of a distinguished career, filled with insights gleaned from decades of work." * Kevin Donovan, The University of Edinburgh

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