l'Afrique

Allemagne

Professor of Modern African Studies

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany

biersche@mail.uni-mainz.de

Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
D-55099
Mainz
Germany

phone: +49 (0) 6131 392.2798
fax: +49 (06131) 392.3730

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ifeas/

Benin

Teaching and research in the areas of political sociology and anthropology
of Africa, with a focus on state construction and the local state
(democratization, decentralization, political economy of development),
and a regional focus on French-speaking West Africa.

Teaching and research in the areas of political sociology and anthropology
of Africa, with a focus on state construction and the local state
(democratization, decentralization, political economy of development),
and a regional focus on French-speaking West Africa.

Thomas Bierschenk & Jean-Pierre-Olivier de Sardan. "Powers in the
Village: Rural Benin between Democratisation and Decentralisation,"
Africa. vol. 73, no. 2 (2003): 145-173.

local governance ; democratization ; decentralization ; political economy ; development; West Africa