The Eight Modes of Local Governance in West Africa
The Eight Modes of Local Governance in West Africa
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西非地方治理的八种模式
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2011
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J. D. Sardan
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J. D. Sardan
在分析和非规范的方式中使用，治理的概念可以被认为是指根据特定的逻辑和规范以及特定形式的权威提供公共或集体服务和商品的任何有组织的方法。本文将这一概念应用于尼日尔和西非其他国家提供或共同提供公共产品和服务的地方领域的分析。该分析提出了八种“地方治理模式”，并根据长期收集的实地调查证据描述了它们的主要特征。主要分为联合、市政（市议会）、项目型、官僚型、赞助型、宗教型和商业型治理模式。文章最后定义和界定了一个地方政治文化的概念，指的是一系列与具体地方治理模式的实际运作有关的共享的现代实践和表征。
Used in an analytical and non‐normative way, the concept of governance may be taken to refer to any organised method of delivering public or collective services and goods according to specific logics and norms, and to specific forms of authority. This article applies the concept to analysis of local arenas in which public goods and services are delivered or co‐delivered in Niger and other countries of West Africa. The analysis proposes eight ‘modes of local governance’ and describes their main characteristics drawing on fieldwork evidence collected over an extended period. Chiefly, associational, municipal (municipal council), project‐based, bureaucratic, sponsorship‐based, religious and merchant modes of governance are distinguished. The article concludes by defining and delimiting a concept of local political culture, referring to a set of shared modern practices and representations relating to the practical operation of modes of local governance in specific local arenas.