Barriers to Local-Government Capacity in Nigeria

Mead, Timothy D.

doi:10.1177/027507409602600202

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“…For example, in a recent prescriptive article on the age of globalisation, Farazmand (2009) emphasised capacity-building as critical to growth and development in the world. Policy studies in Africa (Mead 1996), Eastern Europe (Staronova 2010), Asia (Tsao 2009) and cross-nationally (Kettl 1997) feature capacity or capacity-building as the most important issue in comparative bureaucracy. Moreover, studies of state and local policy, even in developed nations such as the US, critique the ability of those governments to implement legislated policies (cf Reeves 1982).…”

Section: What Is State Capacity?mentioning

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Income taxation and the validity of state capacity indicators

Rogers

Weller

2013

J. Pub. Pol.

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: State capacity is a key concept for research in public policy and political science. Despite its importance, there is no broadly accepted measure of state capacity in the existing literature, and frequently used measures of capacity have not been examined for their validity. We begin with an explicit definition of state capacity -the state's ability to implement public policy -and connect this definition to a measurable outcome of state capacity -the state's taxation of income. We show that this measure, income taxes as a percentage of total tax revenue, is a useful indicator of state capacity and meets higher standards of measurement validity than other tax-based indicators. We also compare our measure to the most common existing indicators of state capacity to show that income taxation is a better theoretical and statistical measure of states' effectiveness in policy implementation.

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Section: What Is State Capacity?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Income taxation and the validity of state capacity indicators

Rogers

Weller

2013

J. Pub. Pol.

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“…The perception that the public sector is wasteful and corrupt calls for accountability which means answerability for ones actions or behaviour (Hassan 2001;Mead 1995;Ekpe and Awofeso 2003). Accountability falls into two categories, mandatory accountability which is found in democratic regimes, and voluntary accountability or discretional which is either selfimposed or ideologically-inspired (Ijewere 1999: 12).…”

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Effect of Local Government Financial Information Communication on Transparency , Citizenry Participation and Infrastructural Development in Imo State , Nigeria

Unegbu¹

2012

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Financial information communication is a deterrent to mismanagement of funds and leads to transparency. The aim of this survey was to determine the effect of financial information dissemination by the local governments in Imo State, Nigeria on infrastructural development, empowerment of the citizens and their participation in developmental issues, and the local government's transparency in the utilization of funds allocated to and generated by the local governments. Questionnaire was used in data collection while Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for the analysis of the data and test of the hypotheses. Spearman Correlation statistics was utilized to test all the three hypotheses at 95% (0.05) significance level. Result was represented in discrete figures, percentages, graphs and tables. The research discovered that there is a positive interrelationship between financial information communication and infrastructural development, citizens' participation and development. The research recommended that a body be empowered by the federal government to ensure that the local governments disseminate financial information to the citizens since it helps in development of the local governments.

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“…Local notables in Nigeria did not seem particularly concerned with the health sector, and its budget generally fell well behind road construction and maintenance in particular, and capital projects in general (Ikhide et al, 1993). The latter were expenditures which seemed likely more after to bene®t notables' interests, usually business related (Mead, 1996). This neglect and decay seemed to engender no organized or general public political protest in any of the sites visited and researched during a two-year study of local health and decentraliztion (Olowu and Wunsch, 1995;Wunsch and Olowu, 1996).…”

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Decentralization, local governance and ‘recentralization’ in Africa

Wunsch

2001

Public Admin & Development

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Although Many African states have pursued substantial decentralization reforms in the previous twenty years, many of these reforms are still experiencing problems in bringing about effective local governance. Often these problems grow from the dif-®culty in translating general reform initiatives into speci®c working arrangements at the local level that are effective in several key processes and operations. Speci®cally these include planning and capital investment, budgeting and ®scal management, personnel systems and management, and ®nance and revenue. A combination of central reluctance to relinquish authority in these key areas and the complexity of organizational redesign to support decentralization seem to explain these problems.

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Barriers to Local-Government Capacity in Nigeria

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Income taxation and the validity of state capacity indicators

Income taxation and the validity of state capacity indicators

Effect of Local Government Financial Information Communication on Transparency , Citizenry Participation and Infrastructural Development in Imo State , Nigeria

Decentralization, local governance and ‘recentralization’ in Africa

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