Strategies for Advancing Anticorruption Reform in Nigeria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9684973
AutoresRotimi T Suberu (Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen147
Número3
Páginas184-201
Fecha de publicación2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_00510
OpenAlexW2810074500
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3

A vast literature documenting the structural embeddedness, grotesque scale, and devastating consequences of political corruption in Nigeria threatens to overshadow the tenacity of the country's anti-corruption “wars,” the recent gains in controlling electoral corruption, the development of a robust national discourse about improving the effectiveness of anticorruption reform, and the crystallization of potentially viable legislative and constitutional reform agendas for promoting good governance. Especially remarkable was the 2015 election of opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, who ran on an anticorruption platform. Drawing lessons from those national anticorruption struggles, this essay distills several interrelated steps by which reformist political leaders and activist civil society organizations might advance anticorruption reform in Nigeria and, potentially, elsewhere. These strategies involve depoliticizing key oversight institutions, curbing presidential and gubernatorial discretionary powers, restructuring patronage-based fiscal federalism, expanding and entrenching current transparency laws, and promoting participatory constitutionalism

Civil society · Corporate governance · Economics · Language change · Legislature · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Corruption and Economic Development · Law · Public Administration