Global challenges in democratic local governance of the African states
Abstract: Local governments in many parts of Africa are yet to be fully accepted as important levels of government (by political actors at the central and sub-central levels). This gives rise to the contradictory scenario whereby such political actors at the central and sub-central levels remain the apostles of centralization on one hand and exponents of democracy as a model of national government on the other hand. Nigeria is the most populous African country. And this marginalization of the local government in the democratic process is prevalent in Nigeria. Invariably, the pervasive effect of this condition, as it negatively affects the availability of dividends of democracy to the African citizen, is worrisome. In the meantime, the continent of Europe is perceived in the study as having possibly taken local government understanding to a model level of local self-governance, through its European Charter of Local Self-Government. Europe is thus, seen in this study as a region in the lead in
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2016) 71 ; 33-39
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Politik
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Mannheim
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2016
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Agu, Sylvia Uchenna
Okeke, Remi Chukwudi
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10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.71.33
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019080411504100920722
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Open Access; Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Agu, Sylvia Uchenna
- Okeke, Remi Chukwudi
Entstanden
- 2016
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