Titlebook: African State Governance; Subnational Politics A. Carl LeVan,Joseph Olayinka Fashagba,Edward R. M Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) a

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Howard Block,Rob Castle,David Hritzional government institutions by exploring the role of state councils/legislatures vis-à-vis national power exercised through Ethiopia’s federal framework. It finds that despite two decades of institutionalization, these subnational state institutions lack autonomy and independence.

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Africa Ariño,Pankaj Ghemawat,Joan E. Ricartith national government officials. The president and the politicians in the capital remain far removed, making the relationship between rulers and ruled largely an indirect one. Elections, whether competitive or merely ritualistic, do little to reduce this distance between citizens and government, l

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Nicolaj Siggelkow,Christian Terwieschequity, economic underperformance, and other governance failures that plague Africa’s neo-patrimonial states in general and natural resource-dependent countries in particular? This chapter explores that question by distilling lessons from the experience of Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, big

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Nicolaj Siggelkow,Christian Terwieschntegration of ordinary people into governance and are charged with ‘the enhancement of representative grassroots democracy’ (Fajingbesi et al., 2004, 47). Subnational legislatures are endowed with the power to independently raise revenue, but they face growing duties. Given their varied obligations,

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Springer Series in Supply Chain Management government systems, in both new and old democracies. In a similar manner, donor agencies like the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and other interested organizations are showing more interest in understanding how decentralization of power, functions, and institutions in both emerging

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Springer Series in Supply Chain Managementeordained to be successful over the long term. The accountability deficit across various democratic regimes in Africa stands out as a major challenge to democratization processes in Africa (Barkan 2009). Limited legislative autonomy is a key element of this. In terms of raw power, most African legis

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