Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana

Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana by Robert M. Price examines the organizational dynamics of the Ghanaian civil service as a key to understanding the constraints facing postcolonial African states. Price begins with the premise that independence brought sovereignty but not unconstrained capacity for autonomous action: choice for African states was quickly tempered by economic dependency and weak internal institutions. In this context, the bureaucratic machinery of the state beco...