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Good Governance in Nigeria
Portia Roelofs
其他書名
Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2023-04-20
主題
Political Science / American Government / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
History / Africa / General
Political Science / General
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Constitutions
ISBN
100923546X
9781009235464
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nna3EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Drawing on original fieldwork in Nigeria, Portia Roelofs argues for an innovative re-conceptualisation of good governance. Contributing to debates around technocracy, populism and the survival of democracy amidst conditions of inequality and mistrust, Roelofs offers a new account of what it means for leaders to be accountable and transparent. Centred on the rise of the 'Lagos Model' in the Yoruba south-west, this book places the voices of roadside traders and small-time market leaders alongside those of local government officials, political godfathers and technocrats. In doing so, it theorises 'socially-embedded' good governance. Roelofs demonstrates the value of fieldwork for political theory and the associated possibilities for decolonising the study of politics. Challenging the long-held assumptions of the World Bank and other international institutions that African political systems are pathologically dysfunctional, Roelofs demonstrates that politics in Nigeria has much to teach us about good governance.