National Assembly and Legislative Effectiveness in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

ISBN-13: 9789819907793 / Angielski

Adebola Rafiu Bakare

Opis

This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria’s National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th–8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model ‘Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score’ used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Concept, Origin and Significance of Legislature in Democratic Governance.

Chapter Two: Historical Development and the Institutional Framework of the Nigerian National Assembly

Chapter Three: Legislative Powers and Lawmaking Process in the Nigerian National Assembly

Chapter Four: Legislative Effectiveness: A Discourse on Measuring Toolkits, Benchmarks and Indicators

Chapter Five: Measuring Legislative Effectiveness in the Nigerian National Assembly: The Birth of ILES Model

 Chapter Six: Comparative Analysis of Legislative Effectiveness of the 4th - 8th National Assemblies

Chapter Seven: Assessing the Legislative Effectiveness of the National Assembly: The ILES Model Approach

 Chapter Eight: Interpreting the Lawmaking Performance and Determinants of Legislative Effectiveness of the National Assembly

Chapter Nine: Legislative Impact on the People and the Challenges facing the National Assembly

Chapter Ten: Budgetary Process and other major Issues that have affected the National Assembly in the Fourth Republic

Chapter Eleven: Interrogating Membership Distribution and the Cost of Running the National Assembly

Chapter Twelve: Towards Reforming the National Assembly: A Discourse of Issues, Constraints and Way-Forward

O autorze

Adebola Rafiu Bakare  is lecturer at University of Ilorin, Department of Political Science, Ilorin, Nigeria.

Blurb

This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria’s National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th–8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model ‘Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score’ used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly.

Adebola Rafiu BAKARE is a lecturer and currently Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.