@article{fdi:010062344, title = {{A} view of a bureaucratic developmental state : local governance and agricultural extension in rural {E}thiopia}, author = {{P}lanel, {S}abine}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}his article discusses the hybridism of the {E}thiopian developmental state through an analysis of the local interface between the state and the peasantry. {T}he aim is to explore to what extent bureaucratic rationality both conditions and perverts the procedures employed in the implementation of public rural development policies, in this case agricultural extension. {A}nd to what extent development policies can operate as an instrument of power that reinforces the local disempowerment of the most vulnerable peasants. {T}he article makes a detailed analysis of the machinery of agricultural extension, the local conditions of distribution and reception of fertiliser and improved seeds in rural {E}thiopia.}, keywords = {local peasant-state interface ; technical package ; public policies ; rural ; governance ; {E}thiopia ; {ETHIOPIE}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{J}ournal of {E}astern {A}frican {S}tudies}, volume = {8}, numero = {3}, pages = {420--437}, ISSN = {1753-1055}, year = {2014}, DOI = {10.1080/17531055.2014.922745}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010062344}, }