The 2020 international protests addressing structural racism and colonial legacies have also questioned Western ascendancy on defining (good) governance. Non-Western traditional forms of governance surviving today, despite not receiving much academic attention, pose an obvious alternative. This study analyses key indigenous institutions in Morocco known as zawāyā, and in doing so, fills some of the lacunae on Islamic-African public administration. Drawing from novel data collected via ethnographic fieldwork across three domains of public service provision, the authors, apparently for the first time in such a context, present a public administration that is functional in its operation, delivering on its goals, and on both counts markedly different from the global-Western mainstream. Our results uncover a public administration that (1) coexists with a larger state, (2) delivers coproduced services, and (3) merits recognition.

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在全球西部的半阴影中：摩洛哥 zawāyā 作为良好的公共管理

2020 年针对结构性种族主义和殖民遗产的国际抗议活动也质疑西方在定义（良好）治理方面的优势。尽管没有受到太多学术关注，但今天仍然存在的非西方传统治理形式构成了一个明显的替代方案。本研究分析了摩洛哥被称为 zawāyā 的主要土著机构，并在此过程中填补了伊斯兰-非洲公共行政管理方面的一些空白。借助通过公共服务提供的三个领域的人种学实地调查收集的新数据，作者显然是第一次在这样的背景下，展示了一个在运作中发挥作用的公共行政，实现其目标，并且在这两个方面都显着不同于全球-西方主流。