Portia Roelofs (King's College London)

Good Governance in Nigeria

Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on original fieldwork in Nigeria, Portia Roelofs argues for an innovative re-conceptualisation of good governance. Contributing to contemporary debates over technocracy, populism and the survival of democracy amidst conditions of inequality and mistrust, Roelofs reconsiders what it means for leaders to be accountable and transparent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781009235426
• ISBN-10: 1009235427
• Artikelnr.: 64294567

Autorenporträt

Portia Roelofs is Lecturer in Politics at King's College London. She was previously the Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Political Thought at St Anne's College Oxford and an LSE Fellow in International Development. She has spent time as a visiting scholar at the universities of Ibadan and Maiduguri, and the Institute Français de Recherche on Afrique - Ibadan. She has published in African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Governance, Oxford Development Studies and Review of African Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

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.