Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'IvoireCambridge University Press, 24. svi 2010. 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. |
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A Quantitative Puzzle and Analysis | 40 |
A Qualitative Analysis of Change | 65 |
Part II Legacies of the State Role in Mediating Risk in Ghana and Côte dIvoire | 97 |
Chapter 4 The Legacies of the Colonial Administrative State in Constructing the Citizen Family and Community Roles | 99 |
Chapter 5 The Construction and Retrenchment of State Social Service Provision and the Unintended Consequences for Reciprocity | 120 |
Contrasting Legacies of State Agricultural Policy for Local Capitalism and Reciprocity | 164 |
Part III Informal Institutions of Reciprocity and the Prospects for Democratic Citizenship | 197 |
Chapter 7 Transformations of the Informal Institutions of Reciprocity and the Implications for Citizenship | 199 |
Chapter 8 Conclusion | 227 |
Bibliography | 263 |
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Abengourou Abidjan Accra African agricultural Akan Akan ethnic group analysis Barima benefits British central citizenship cocoa farmers conceptualization confirmed conflict contrast Cote d'lvoire Côte d’Ivoire decentralized difficult diversified economic elderly ethnic extended family family members fieldsite villages fieldwork finding first focus group anonymous formal French colonial friends Ghana and Côte Ghanaian region Ghanaian respondents Ghanaian villages Ghanaians and Ivoirians Gold Coast help given higher indigenous individuals influence informal institutions informal reciprocity institutions of reciprocity Ivoirian region Ivoirian respondents Ivoirian villages Kyere loans Makwan Men’s focus group networks non-Akan normative nuclear family officials Opanin participation percent political administration reflected region of Côte regions of Ghana relatively role significant similar social capital social policy social service provision social support state’s Survey interview anonymous Tano District Tape recording tomato variables village level village residents witchcraft women Women’s focus World Bank