The Concept of Vernacular Statecraft Suggests That Local Communities

question 53

Multiple Choice

The concept of vernacular statecraft suggests that local communities

• A) Insist that they be subject to top-down forms of management.
• B) Are subject to state manipulation.
• C) May repurpose the administrative procedures of the state when its institutions are weak, unreliable, or absent.
• D) Model their local governmentality in terms of colonial intrusion.

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