Governance Crises in Developing Countries: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives to Nigeria’s Public Sector

Ogbewere Bankole Ijewereme

International Journal of Public Administration, 2020, vol. 43, issue 16, 1376-1385

Abstract: Ethics and accountability are strong indices for measuring commitment to economic development. Development continues to elude developing countries, particularly Nigeria mainly because of corruption, unethical behavior, and accountability crisis in governance. This article intends to analyze governance crises in developing countries, focusing on Nigeria case, in order to understand their natures, and also utilizes resource curse, defective federalism, anomie, low risk-high benefits theories, and field data to provide explanations to governance crises. The findings reveal that; nepotism, societal pressures, low remuneration, seeming lack of punishments for involving in corruption among others are the causes of governance crises in Nigeria.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2019.1669175

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