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African State Governance Subnational politics and national power edited by A. Carl LeVan, Joseph Olayinka Fashagba and Edward R. McMahon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2015Description: xvi, 253 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781137523334 (hardback)
  • 1137523336 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • JS 7525 AFR
LOC classification:
  • JS 7525 AFR
Other classification:
  • POL020000 | POL026000 | POL030000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Subnational Legislative Politics and African Democratic Development; A. Carl LeVan -- PART I: NIGERIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Lessons in Fiscal Federalism for Africa's New Oil Exporters; Rotimi T. Suberu -- 2. Taxation and Determinants of Legislative Representation in Africa; Olufunmbi Elemo -- 3. Subnational Legislatures and National Governing Institutions in Nigeria, 1999-2014; Joseph Olayinka Fashagba -- 4. Executive Dominance or Subnational Democratization? State and National-Level Institutions Compared; Yahaya T. Baba -- PART II: NEW INSTITUTIONAL FRONTIERS IN FEDERALISM -- 5. Devolution Under Kenya's 2010 Constitutional Dispensation; Westen Shilaho -- 6. Central Control and Regional States' Autonomy in Ethiopia; Solomon Gofie -- 7. Provincial Governance and Party Competition in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Majuta Judas Mamogale -- Conclusion: Subnational Politics and National Power in Africa; Joseph Olayinka Fashagba and Edward R. McMahon -- Index.
Summary: "This book offers a comprehensive picture of state and local legislative politics in Africa and a detailed examination of formal and informal political authority in the states, provinces and counties. It considers the pace and nature of change of African federalism is changing - identifying a variety of subnational institutions emerging as centres of policy control - and asks the key questions: how do state legislatures affect the balance of power between governors and the national executive? What influences state-level budgetary control? Given recent decentralization and various political reforms, what is a state legislature? How will Africa's new oil discoveries impact distributive politics? The book explores how executive-legislative relations often differ across levels of government, even where the party system otherwise seems similar, and argues that these differences are not simply the result of limited resources or experience, but due to misaligned institutional incentives.Chapters on Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa fill an important gap in comparative institutional research about state and local politics, and consider how identified trends could lead either to the promotion of democratic reform - or the consolidation of illiberal local politicians and 'godfathers' in Africa"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Subnational Legislative Politics and African Democratic Development; A. Carl LeVan -- PART I: NIGERIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Lessons in Fiscal Federalism for Africa's New Oil Exporters; Rotimi T. Suberu -- 2. Taxation and Determinants of Legislative Representation in Africa; Olufunmbi Elemo -- 3. Subnational Legislatures and National Governing Institutions in Nigeria, 1999-2014; Joseph Olayinka Fashagba -- 4. Executive Dominance or Subnational Democratization? State and National-Level Institutions Compared; Yahaya T. Baba -- PART II: NEW INSTITUTIONAL FRONTIERS IN FEDERALISM -- 5. Devolution Under Kenya's 2010 Constitutional Dispensation; Westen Shilaho -- 6. Central Control and Regional States' Autonomy in Ethiopia; Solomon Gofie -- 7. Provincial Governance and Party Competition in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Majuta Judas Mamogale -- Conclusion: Subnational Politics and National Power in Africa; Joseph Olayinka Fashagba and Edward R. McMahon -- Index.

"This book offers a comprehensive picture of state and local legislative politics in Africa and a detailed examination of formal and informal political authority in the states, provinces and counties. It considers the pace and nature of change of African federalism is changing - identifying a variety of subnational institutions emerging as centres of policy control - and asks the key questions: how do state legislatures affect the balance of power between governors and the national executive? What influences state-level budgetary control? Given recent decentralization and various political reforms, what is a state legislature? How will Africa's new oil discoveries impact distributive politics? The book explores how executive-legislative relations often differ across levels of government, even where the party system otherwise seems similar, and argues that these differences are not simply the result of limited resources or experience, but due to misaligned institutional incentives.Chapters on Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa fill an important gap in comparative institutional research about state and local politics, and consider how identified trends could lead either to the promotion of democratic reform - or the consolidation of illiberal local politicians and 'godfathers' in Africa"--

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