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BARRIERS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM: THE CASE OF NIGERIA
Author(s) -
Mead Timothy D.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1996.tb00437.x
Subject(s) - federalism , autonomy , military rule , independence (probability theory) , political science , public administration , ideal (ethics) , government (linguistics) , local government , regional autonomy , law , democracy , politics , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics
Nigeria's constitutional system explicitly establishes local autonomy as one of the principles of its “three tier” federalism. Over the thirty years of Nigerian Independence, however, there have been barriers to local government autonomy—even under civilian rule—that have prevented the constitutional ideal from being realized. Some of the barriers are holdovers from the traditional society and some are of contemporary origin. None of the barriers is as troublesome as the recurrent military rule.