Overview
- Presents empirical evidence of the failure of the legislative institutions in Nigeria
- Discusses corruption and prolificacy in the country's presidential system
- Proposes oversight mechanisms to make the executive accountable
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Nigerian National Assembly
- Accountability
- Oversight mechanisms
- Corruption
- Leadership
- Power
- Legislative committees
- Legislative institutions
- Human security
- State houses
- Presidential democracy
- Separation of powers
- Legislative - executive relations
- Rule of law
- Nigerian federalism
- Representative democracy
- Political disengagement
- Social cohesion
About this book
The book further discusses the depreciating infrastructure, corruption, and mismanagement of public resources, and shows how defiant attitudes of public political and bureaucratic officials define the new wave of corruption and profligacy in Nigeria, presenting this development as a result of a weakened legislature. The book displays the necessity of implementing a culture of accountability and discusses oversight mechanisms to make the executive accountable. These mechanisms are designed to ensure effective public service delivery. Finally, the book situates the legislative institutions in Nigeria within the context of the contributions of the National Assembly and the Assemblies of the State Houses to the development of this emerging democracy in Africa.
The book will appeal to students and scholars of political science and public administration, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of democracy, separation of powers, governance, and Nigerian politics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi is a governance expert, legal practitioner, and dual faculty Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Okuku Campus and Professor in the Department of Public Law at the Ifetedo Campus, both of the Osun State University, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and PhD in Law from the University of Leicester, UK. Alabi was Speaker of the Osun State House Assembly (May 1999 - May 2003) and a Member of the House of Representatives(June 2015 – June 2019). Between 2008 and 2010, he served as an Expert in Good Governance, Ethics and Professionalism in the Public Sector and Head, Parliamentary Capacity Building Programme of the Centre Africain de Formation et de Recherche Administratives pour le Developpement (CAFRAD), based in Tangiers, the Kingdom of Morocco. Alabi also worked for the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Abuja, Nigeria. His research and consultancy activities focus on the reform of governance institutions, particularly on the role of the judiciary and the legislature in facilitating good governance. He is the author of The Supreme Court in the Nigerian Political System 1963-1997 (2002), ECOWAS Court and Regional Integration in West Africa (2016), and Constitutionalism in Nigeria: Politics and Law in an Emerging African Democracy (2022). He is co-author of Perspectives on the Legislature in the Government of Nigeria (2010) and editor of Unbroken Legacy of Service: Speaker Bello’s Twelve Years under Three Administrations in Osun State (2011), among various journal papers and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Legislature in Nigeria’s Presidential Democracy of the Fourth Republic
Book Subtitle: Power, Process, and Development
Editors: Omololu Fagbadebo, Mojeed Olujinmi A. Alabi
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24695-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24694-4Published: 21 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24697-5Published: 22 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24695-1Published: 20 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 269
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Politics, Comparative Politics, Public Administration, Governance and Government