African State Governance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Subnational Legislative Politics and African Democratic Development

   1. Introduction: Subnational Legislative Politics and African Democratic Development

      • A. Carl LeVan

      Pages 1-27

3. Nigeria in Comparative Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Lessons in Fiscal Federalism for Africa’s New Oil Exporters

      • Rotimi T. Suberu

      Pages 31-57

   3. Taxation and Determinants of Legislative Representation in Africa

      • Olufunmbi M. Elemo

      Pages 59-91

   4. Subnational Legislatures and National Governing Institutions in Nigeria, 1999–2013

      • Joseph Olayinka Fashagba

      Pages 93-119

   5. Executive Dominance, Party Control, and State Legislatures in Nigeria: Evidence from Three States in the Northwest Geopolitical Zone

      • Yahaya T. Baba

      Pages 121-144

4. New Institutional Frontiers in Federalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Third Time Lucky? Devolution and State Restructure under Kenya’s 2010 Constitutional Dispensation

      • Westen K. Shilaho

      Pages 147-177

   3. Central Control and Regional States’ Autonomy in Ethiopia

      • Solomon M. Gofie

      Pages 179-197

   4. Provincial Paths to Democratic Accountability in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Limpopo Province

      • Majuta Judas Mamogale

      Pages 199-225

   5. Conclusion: Subnational Legislatures and Governance in Africa

      • Joseph Olayinka Fashagba, Edward R. McMahon

      Pages 227-243

5. Back Matter

   Pages 245-253

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Africa is changing and it is easy to overlook how decentralization, democratization, and new forms of illiberalism have transformed federalism, political parties, and local politics. Chapters on Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa help fill an important gap in comparative institutional research about state and local politics in Africa.

• Decentralization
• federalism
• fiscal federalism
• African politics
• democratization
• local government
• authoritarianism
• Nigeria
• Kenya
• Ethiopia
• South Africa
• oil
• patronage
• constitution
• executive
• governance
• Government
• Institution
• Political Parties
• politics
• us politics

“This book offers an encompassing analysis of the state of subnational political institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. … an ambitious book that shows how subnational legislative politics and local democratic development are weakly linked in Africa. This book will become an important reference for those interested in subnational legislative institutions as the missing link in the processes of political change in Africa.” (Hélder Ferreira do Vale, Democratization, Vol. 24 (4), 2017)

'This stimulating analysis of subnational politics across key states in sub-Saharan Africa provides an empirically nuanced and in-depth account of the policies and practices of devolution. The institutional focus takes seriously the congruence between national and subnational; formal and informal; party structure, fiscal federalism, judicial independence and the electoral system. Wrestling with challenging issues such as ethnic competition, the resource curse, and continued executive dominance, the authors place subnational governance in context to assess democratic development, representation, accountability and governance.' Rachel Beatty Riedl, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, USA

'The volume contains a collection of essays that uniformly contain a very rich harvest of cutting-edge research outcomes and insights in engaging prose on such issues and matters on the frontier of intellectual and policy considerations of the often difficult subject of the travails of representation in African governance. In this enterprise, the book has chosen to address a long-standing weakness in the relevant literature, namely, the relative silence on, and neglect of, sub-national legislatures and emerging and subsisting local arenas for policy engagement and policy making. It thus alerts us to the often difficult but equally exciting inter-penetrations between sub-national and national institutions and processes in the determination of the quantum and quality of governance and politics in the everyday life of Africans, majority of whom are locked up in the margins of their society and economy.Written and edited by established and emerging scholars in the mainstream of African(ist) scholarship, all united by fresh perspectives on the subject at hand,he book offers excellent fare for academics, students, policy practitioners and all those interested in coming to an unusually grounded, theoretically informed, and comparative understanding of Africangovernance in the latter part of the second decade of the twenty first century.' Adigun Agbaje, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

• School of International Service, American University, Washington DC, USA

  A. Carl LeVan

• Department of Political Science and International Relations, Landmark University, Nigeria

  Joseph Olayinka Fashagba

• University of Vermont, USA

  Edward R. McMahon

Yahaya Baba, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria. Olufunmbi 'Funmbi' M. Elemo, Michigan State University, USA. Joseph Olayinka Fashagba, Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria. Solomon Gofie, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia A. Carl LeVan, American University, Washington, D.C, USA. Majuta J. Mamogale, Limpopo Provincial Legislature, Limpopo Province, South Africa Edward E. McMahon, University of Vermont, USA. Westen Kwatemba Shilaho, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Rotimi Suberu, Bennington College, Vermont, USA.

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