Ladipo Adamolekun
Biographic Data
| ID | 364708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ladipo Adamolekun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ladipo |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamolekun |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMOLEKUN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sékou Touré’s Guinea
Originally published in 1976, this book was the first comprehensive analysis in English of the post-independence developments in the West African Republic of Guinea. It is a scholarly analysis of the different aspects of life in the country: political, economic and social. Among other things, the significance and consequences of the 1958 historic vote for independence are carefully examined: the role of President Touré, the country’s first and on…
The Governors and the Governed
Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies
A puzzle underpins this groundbreaking study of legislative development in Africa: Why are variations in the extent of legislative authority and performance across the continent only partially related, if at all, to the overall level of democratization? And if democratization is not the prime determinant of legislative authority, what is? Exploring the constraints that have retarded the development and power of legislatures across Africa--and how…
The Nigerian Federation at the Crossroads
This article reviews the first fifty years of federal experience in Nigeria. It distinguishes three phases: an apprenticeship to “true” federalism phase (1954-1965), a federal dominance phase under military rule (1966-1979 and 1984-1999), and a “muddling-through” phase under civilian rule (1979-1983 and 1999 to date). The first phase was characterized by political devolution and intergovernmental competition, during which regional governments rec…
Africa’s Evolving Career Civil Service Systems
This article examines the crisis of the career civil service systems in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the 1990s against the background of the progressive abandonment of the key features of the Weberian bureaucratic models inherited by the countries at independence in the 1960s. After analysing the major explanatory factors for the crisis (adoption of one-party systems, advent of military governments and the triumph of patronage over the …
Public Administration in Africa
Part One: Main Issues Governance Context and Reorientation of Government (Ladipo Adamolekun) Central Government Organization (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Enterprise (Mouftaou Laleye) Decentralization, Sub-National Governments and Intergovernmental Relations (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Financial Management (Kithinji Kiragu) Human Resources Management (Dele Olowu, Ladipo Adamolekun) Records Management, Information Systems and Technology (Kithinji Kira…
Réflexions sur les relations entre politique et administration en Afrique
Reflection on the Politics and Administration Nexus in Africa This paper reviews the problems posed at the interface between politicians and higher civil servants in Sub-Saharan African countries since independence. It argues that there has been more continuity than change in the patterns of relationships. Although the attempts to promote "unified" politico-administrative elites minimised conflicts in some countries during the single party era, i…
Transition Without End
The authors examine the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993), chronicling the country's descent from the promise of reform and renewal to an unprecedented political and economic depression
Malawi Institute of Management
The Federal Solution
Federalism has not been a resounding success in Africa, although unitary regimes have had no better record One promising political system has been the consistently federal and periodically democratic government of Nigeria. The principal challenges facing Nigeria, which are not unlike those facing other heterogeneous African countries, are national unity, democratic politics, and socioeconomic development. Examined here are the nature of these cha…
Federal Character” and Management of the Federal Civil Service and the Military
The character principle, which has been enshrined in Nigeria's Constitution since 1979, seeks to ensure that appointments to public service institutions fairly reflect the linguistic, ethnic, religious, and geographic diversity ofthe country. Application ofthe principle in the federal civil service and the military has amounted to a confused balancing ofthe merit principle and the quota system, based essentially on states of origin. This has had …
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Federalism in Nigeria Get access Ladipo Adamolekun Ladipo Adamolekun The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 1991, Pages 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037961 Published: 01 January 1991
The Evolution of the Nigerian Federal Administration System
This article reviews the major consequences for the evolution of Nigeria's public administration of the process by which the ”loose“ model of federalism adopted in 1954 was transformed into one in which the national government became dominant from 1966 onwards. To illustrate how this development affected the emerging public administration system, two broad themes are examined: (1) the structure, organization, and functioning of the federal and su…
Political Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa
National liberation struggles and the subsequent activity of nation-building have dominated the political development of sub-Saharan African states. However, only the former process has produced first-rate political leaders, amongst whom Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré are the best examples. In the nation-building stage, leaders most often failed, in terms both of low effectiveness and instability of office-holders. Reasons for this failure can be …
Le leadership politique en Afrique noire
African perspectives
The Nigeria Ombudsman Experience
Administration et développement au niveau local
Sekou Toure's Guinea
Sékou Touré's Guinea
Towards Development-Oriented Bureaucracies in Africa
Accountability and Control Measures in Public Bureaucracies
Bureaucrats and the Senegalese Political Process
While independence in West Africa focused academic attention on political parties, the proliferation of military régimes in the late 1960s- by 1970, seven West African countries had experienced military rule - brought two other institutions into prominence: the military and civil bureaucracies. This article seeks to throw some light on the place of the civil bureaucracy in Senegal through a study of the role of bureaucrats in the country's politi…
The Nigerian Federation at the Crossroads
This article reviews the first fifty years of federal experience in Nigeria. It distinguishes three phases: an apprenticeship to “true” federalism phase (1954-1965), a federal dominance phase under military rule (1966-1979 and 1984-1999), and a “muddling-through” phase under civilian rule (1979-1983 and 1999 to date). The first phase was characterized by political devolution and intergovernmental competition, during which regional governments rec…
Public Administration in Africa
Part One: Main Issues Governance Context and Reorientation of Government (Ladipo Adamolekun) Central Government Organization (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Enterprise (Mouftaou Laleye) Decentralization, Sub-National Governments and Intergovernmental Relations (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Financial Management (Kithinji Kiragu) Human Resources Management (Dele Olowu, Ladipo Adamolekun) Records Management, Information Systems and Technology (Kithinji Kira…
The Federal Solution
Federalism has not been a resounding success in Africa, although unitary regimes have had no better record One promising political system has been the consistently federal and periodically democratic government of Nigeria. The principal challenges facing Nigeria, which are not unlike those facing other heterogeneous African countries, are national unity, democratic politics, and socioeconomic development. Examined here are the nature of these cha…
Federal Character” and Management of the Federal Civil Service and the Military
The character principle, which has been enshrined in Nigeria's Constitution since 1979, seeks to ensure that appointments to public service institutions fairly reflect the linguistic, ethnic, religious, and geographic diversity ofthe country. Application ofthe principle in the federal civil service and the military has amounted to a confused balancing ofthe merit principle and the quota system, based essentially on states of origin. This has had …
Political Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa
National liberation struggles and the subsequent activity of nation-building have dominated the political development of sub-Saharan African states. However, only the former process has produced first-rate political leaders, amongst whom Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré are the best examples. In the nation-building stage, leaders most often failed, in terms both of low effectiveness and instability of office-holders. Reasons for this failure can be …
Sekou Toure's Guinea
Africa’s Evolving Career Civil Service Systems
This article examines the crisis of the career civil service systems in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the 1990s against the background of the progressive abandonment of the key features of the Weberian bureaucratic models inherited by the countries at independence in the 1960s. After analysing the major explanatory factors for the crisis (adoption of one-party systems, advent of military governments and the triumph of patronage over the …
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Federalism in Nigeria Get access Ladipo Adamolekun Ladipo Adamolekun The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 1991, Pages 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037961 Published: 01 January 1991
The Evolution of the Nigerian Federal Administration System
This article reviews the major consequences for the evolution of Nigeria's public administration of the process by which the ”loose“ model of federalism adopted in 1954 was transformed into one in which the national government became dominant from 1966 onwards. To illustrate how this development affected the emerging public administration system, two broad themes are examined: (1) the structure, organization, and functioning of the federal and su…
Bureaucrats and the Senegalese Political Process
While independence in West Africa focused academic attention on political parties, the proliferation of military régimes in the late 1960s- by 1970, seven West African countries had experienced military rule - brought two other institutions into prominence: the military and civil bureaucracies. This article seeks to throw some light on the place of the civil bureaucracy in Senegal through a study of the role of bureaucrats in the country's politi…
Sékou Touré’s Guinea
Originally published in 1976, this book was the first comprehensive analysis in English of the post-independence developments in the West African Republic of Guinea. It is a scholarly analysis of the different aspects of life in the country: political, economic and social. Among other things, the significance and consequences of the 1958 historic vote for independence are carefully examined: the role of President Touré, the country’s first and on…
The Nigeria Ombudsman Experience
Bureaucrats and the Senegalese Political Process
While independence in West Africa focused academic attention on political parties, the proliferation of military régimes in the late 1960s- by 1970, seven West African countries had experienced military rule - brought two other institutions into prominence: the military and civil bureaucracies. This article seeks to throw some light on the place of the civil bureaucracy in Senegal through a study of the role of bureaucrats in the country's politi…
Accountability and Control Measures in Public Bureaucracies
Towards Development-Oriented Bureaucracies in Africa
Sekou Toure's Guinea
Sékou Touré's Guinea
Administration et développement au niveau local
The Nigeria Ombudsman Experience
African perspectives
Political Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa
National liberation struggles and the subsequent activity of nation-building have dominated the political development of sub-Saharan African states. However, only the former process has produced first-rate political leaders, amongst whom Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré are the best examples. In the nation-building stage, leaders most often failed, in terms both of low effectiveness and instability of office-holders. Reasons for this failure can be …
Le leadership politique en Afrique noire
The Evolution of the Nigerian Federal Administration System
This article reviews the major consequences for the evolution of Nigeria's public administration of the process by which the ”loose“ model of federalism adopted in 1954 was transformed into one in which the national government became dominant from 1966 onwards. To illustrate how this development affected the emerging public administration system, two broad themes are examined: (1) the structure, organization, and functioning of the federal and su…
The Federal Solution
Federalism has not been a resounding success in Africa, although unitary regimes have had no better record One promising political system has been the consistently federal and periodically democratic government of Nigeria. The principal challenges facing Nigeria, which are not unlike those facing other heterogeneous African countries, are national unity, democratic politics, and socioeconomic development. Examined here are the nature of these cha…
Federal Character” and Management of the Federal Civil Service and the Military
The character principle, which has been enshrined in Nigeria's Constitution since 1979, seeks to ensure that appointments to public service institutions fairly reflect the linguistic, ethnic, religious, and geographic diversity ofthe country. Application ofthe principle in the federal civil service and the military has amounted to a confused balancing ofthe merit principle and the quota system, based essentially on states of origin. This has had …
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Federalism in Nigeria Get access Ladipo Adamolekun Ladipo Adamolekun The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 1991, Pages 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037961 Published: 01 January 1991
Transition Without End
The authors examine the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993), chronicling the country's descent from the promise of reform and renewal to an unprecedented political and economic depression
Malawi Institute of Management
Réflexions sur les relations entre politique et administration en Afrique
Reflection on the Politics and Administration Nexus in Africa This paper reviews the problems posed at the interface between politicians and higher civil servants in Sub-Saharan African countries since independence. It argues that there has been more continuity than change in the patterns of relationships. Although the attempts to promote "unified" politico-administrative elites minimised conflicts in some countries during the single party era, i…
Public Administration in Africa
Part One: Main Issues Governance Context and Reorientation of Government (Ladipo Adamolekun) Central Government Organization (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Enterprise (Mouftaou Laleye) Decentralization, Sub-National Governments and Intergovernmental Relations (Ladipo Adamolekun) Public Financial Management (Kithinji Kiragu) Human Resources Management (Dele Olowu, Ladipo Adamolekun) Records Management, Information Systems and Technology (Kithinji Kira…
Africa’s Evolving Career Civil Service Systems
This article examines the crisis of the career civil service systems in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the 1990s against the background of the progressive abandonment of the key features of the Weberian bureaucratic models inherited by the countries at independence in the 1960s. After analysing the major explanatory factors for the crisis (adoption of one-party systems, advent of military governments and the triumph of patronage over the …
The Nigerian Federation at the Crossroads
This article reviews the first fifty years of federal experience in Nigeria. It distinguishes three phases: an apprenticeship to “true” federalism phase (1954-1965), a federal dominance phase under military rule (1966-1979 and 1984-1999), and a “muddling-through” phase under civilian rule (1979-1983 and 1999 to date). The first phase was characterized by political devolution and intergovernmental competition, during which regional governments rec…
Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies
A puzzle underpins this groundbreaking study of legislative development in Africa: Why are variations in the extent of legislative authority and performance across the continent only partially related, if at all, to the overall level of democratization? And if democratization is not the prime determinant of legislative authority, what is? Exploring the constraints that have retarded the development and power of legislatures across Africa--and how…
The Governors and the Governed
Sékou Touré’s Guinea
Originally published in 1976, this book was the first comprehensive analysis in English of the post-independence developments in the West African Republic of Guinea. It is a scholarly analysis of the different aspects of life in the country: political, economic and social. Among other things, the significance and consequences of the 1958 historic vote for independence are carefully examined: the role of President Touré, the country’s first and on…
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