Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781009235426 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Oxford) Roelofs Portia (St Annes College

Opis

Drawing on original fieldwork in Nigeria, Portia Roelofs reconsiders what good governance means, focusing on accountability and transparency.

Recenzje

'Roelofs is to be commended for taking the terms of Nigerian political life seriously, reading them not as evidence for a theory generated elsewhere, but as serious theoretical and ethical contributions to global and local discussions about accountability and transparency in politics. Paired with her refreshingly clear and direct writing, this book is as readable as it is compelling.' Leigh K. Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science

Spis treści

Introduction: competing conceptions of good governance; 1. Contested legacies of good governance; 2. Good governance, what's not to love? The Lagos model in Lagos, Oyo and Ekiti states; 3. Be accessible! Accountability, performance and the politician who is 'always in a meeting'; 4. Theorising accountability as accessibility: communication, social sanctions and the limits of principal-agent models; 5. Transparency in people: information, cabals and the politics of hidden networks; 6. Socially embedded good governance: the public-private divide, out-of-office politicians and 'personal' politics in Africa; Conclusion: what Nigeria can teach us about good governance: from socially embedded governance to twenty-first-century democracy.