Local Government in West Africa
Local Government in West Africa

Author: Ronald Wraith

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-03

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1000857026

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Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. With systems of British local government being adopted in English-speaking West Africa, this book looks at how the local government was supposed to work according to its British origins, and how it gradually came to work in its West African environment.

Local Government in West Africa
Local Government in West Africa

Author: Laing Gray Cowan

Publisher:

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780231918503

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Studies some of the units of local representative government in Southern Nigeria and the problems encountered in the integration of popularly elected bodies into communities where the residents were not prepared to accept their authority.

Political Institutions of West Africa
Political Institutions of West Africa

Author: J. H. Price

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-18

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 100098768X

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This book, originally published in 1967 looks at political institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia a the time of the establishment of alien rule and goes on to discuss in detail constitutional developments from 1919 to the late 20th Century, paying particular attention to the constitutional arrangements of the Commonwealth West African countries after Independence. Aspects such as the judiciary and the enforcement of law and order, the public services and finance, are discussed in separate chapters. The book ends with a survey of the varying patterns of local government in English-speaking West Africa.

Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa

Author: Richard C. Crook

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-12-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780521636476

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This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability between people, politicians and bureaucrats; and, most importantly, on whether governmental performance actually improved in comparison with previous forms of administration. The book is systematically comparative, and based upon extensive popular surveys and local field work. It makes an important contribution to current debates in the development literature on whether 'good governance' and decentralisation can provide more responsive and effective services for the mass of the population - the poor and disadvantaged who live in the rural areas.