Dele Olowu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dele Olowu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dele |
| FAMILY NAME | Olowu |
| SIGNATURE | OLOWU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Failure Of The Centralized State
This book is an outcome of the workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, held in Indiana, during the 1985/86. It seeks to explains why the centralized African state has failed and discusses the breakdown of social processes indirectly caused by the policies of the centralized state
Governance and policy relevance of the Nigerian 40-year grassroots revolution
This article assesses the 40-year-old program of building a third level of governance in Nigeria to improve the democratic and developmental aspirations of Africa’s largest democracy, one of only two federally governed countries on the continent. The assessment relies on secondary and primary sources. The article finds that even though the reform was sustained over the years in terms of structural, financial and human resources capacity infusion …
Failure of the Centralized State
Introduction
Civil service pay reforms in Africa
African civil services have been subjected to perpetual rounds of reforms that have in many cases aggravated problems because the core issue of how to pay for quality civil service on a sustained basis has not been given the much-deserved emphasis. Many African countries have lost the capacity to pay for a high quality civil service due in part to the poverty of their economies, the structure of politics and administration, globalization, and wro…
Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective
Local Governance Reforms in Africa
At a time when the democratic governance resurgence of the 90s in developing countries is giving way to the disappointment and disillusionment at the retreat of democracy, it is opportune that the relationship between democratic and local governance is being given serious consideration by the International Association of Political Science globally (Diamond 2008). For quite sometime now, some of us had argued that democracy cannot be consolidated …
African Governance and Civil Service Reforms
African civil services—as well as other components of the public service: parastatals and local governments—were created in the colonial period and patterned after the models of the colonizing power. The poor fit between expectations and actual performance has made them perpetual objects of reform in the post-independence era in most countries. In the wake of the economic and fiscal crises of the late 1970s, special attention has focused on revit…
Better Governance and Public Policy
Exploring the relationship between governance and development policy, the authors of this collection describe recent governance changes in a range of African countries, analyze the consequences of those changes for institutional reforms, and highlight the challenges involved in consolidating ongoing processes of economic liberalization and democratization
Challenge of multi-level governance in developing countries and possible GIS applications
Introduction—Governance and Public Administration in the 21st Century
This article reviews the different approaches to the study of governance and how the concept and practice of governance is connected with public administration and public management. It examines the controversy surrounding the claim that a paradigm shift has occurred in the study of state-society-economy relationships. This has replaced public administration with public management. The paper suggests that the rediscovery of governance in public a…
Where Corruption Lives
This comprehensive global survey of official corruption in governance links theoretical perspectives to common practices found throughout the world. Ranging from liberal democracies to autocracies, the authors explore initiatives being taken by national governments and international organizations to combat and reduce corrupt practices
Évaluation des politiques de décentralisation en Afrique dans les années quatre-vingt-dix
Evaluating African Decentralisation Policies and Programmes of the 1990s The onsets of liberalisation and democratisation have necessitated a third wave of decentralisation reforms in many African countries in the decade of the 1990s. The article discusses the extent to which the current decentralisation efforts have effectively tackled the problems, which bedevilled past efforts. It is shown that some countries in the region are indeed breaking …
Regime transformation from below
The Literature on Nigerian Federalism
Journal Article The Literature on Nigerian Federalism: A Critical Appraisal Get access Dele Olowu Dele Olowu Obafemi Awolowo University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 1991, Pages 155–171, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037967 Published: 01 January 1991
Local Institutes and Development
RésuméDans le contexte de l'intérêt renouvelé manifesté par les agences de développement, les donateurs et les gouvernements africains pour les contributions potentielles des organisations locales au soutien du développement en Afrique, cet article se fonde sur la littérature et les organisations locales africaines et non-africaines pour évaluer les problèmes rencontrés au cours du processus d'organisation et de soutien de quatre types d'organisa…
Bureaucratic Morality in Africa
An attempt is made here to bring together diverse writings on bureaucratic morality from different African countries. We examine the evidence of low bureaucratic morality and take a critical look at the different attempts to explain and prescribe for this problem. As a step towards the synthesis of these diverse perspectives, we suggest that the critical issue in most African countries is how the use of power is constituted. This influences the e…
Bureaucratic Morality
The manner in which public officials conduct themselves when relating to the public has always attracted the attention of both students and practitioners of the science of politics. Almost all the major political thinkers from Plato to Weber have given serious thought to the subject (Smith, 1959; Nelson, 1982; French, 1983). Yet, amongst scholars of public administration, bureaucratic morality has become a subject of interest only within the last…
A Decade of Local Government Reform in Nigeria
Bureaucratic Corruption and Public Accountability in Nigeria
Bureaucratic Performance in Developed and Developing Countries
Dele Olowu, Bureaucratic Performance in Developed and Developing Countries: A Review of Recent Literature and Developments, Public Administration Review, Vol. 44, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1984), pp. 453-458
The Nature of Bureaucratic Corruption in Nigeria
Regime transformation from below
The Literature on Nigerian Federalism
Journal Article The Literature on Nigerian Federalism: A Critical Appraisal Get access Dele Olowu Dele Olowu Obafemi Awolowo University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 1991, Pages 155–171, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037967 Published: 01 January 1991
Bureaucratic Morality in Africa
An attempt is made here to bring together diverse writings on bureaucratic morality from different African countries. We examine the evidence of low bureaucratic morality and take a critical look at the different attempts to explain and prescribe for this problem. As a step towards the synthesis of these diverse perspectives, we suggest that the critical issue in most African countries is how the use of power is constituted. This influences the e…
The Nature of Bureaucratic Corruption in Nigeria
Civil service pay reforms in Africa
African civil services have been subjected to perpetual rounds of reforms that have in many cases aggravated problems because the core issue of how to pay for quality civil service on a sustained basis has not been given the much-deserved emphasis. Many African countries have lost the capacity to pay for a high quality civil service due in part to the poverty of their economies, the structure of politics and administration, globalization, and wro…
Challenge of multi-level governance in developing countries and possible GIS applications
Bureaucratic Morality
The manner in which public officials conduct themselves when relating to the public has always attracted the attention of both students and practitioners of the science of politics. Almost all the major political thinkers from Plato to Weber have given serious thought to the subject (Smith, 1959; Nelson, 1982; French, 1983). Yet, amongst scholars of public administration, bureaucratic morality has become a subject of interest only within the last…
A Decade of Local Government Reform in Nigeria
Bureaucratic Corruption and Public Accountability in Nigeria
The Nature of Bureaucratic Corruption in Nigeria
Bureaucratic Performance in Developed and Developing Countries
Dele Olowu, Bureaucratic Performance in Developed and Developing Countries: A Review of Recent Literature and Developments, Public Administration Review, Vol. 44, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1984), pp. 453-458
Bureaucratic Corruption and Public Accountability in Nigeria
A Decade of Local Government Reform in Nigeria
Bureaucratic Morality in Africa
An attempt is made here to bring together diverse writings on bureaucratic morality from different African countries. We examine the evidence of low bureaucratic morality and take a critical look at the different attempts to explain and prescribe for this problem. As a step towards the synthesis of these diverse perspectives, we suggest that the critical issue in most African countries is how the use of power is constituted. This influences the e…
Bureaucratic Morality
The manner in which public officials conduct themselves when relating to the public has always attracted the attention of both students and practitioners of the science of politics. Almost all the major political thinkers from Plato to Weber have given serious thought to the subject (Smith, 1959; Nelson, 1982; French, 1983). Yet, amongst scholars of public administration, bureaucratic morality has become a subject of interest only within the last…
Local Institutes and Development
RésuméDans le contexte de l'intérêt renouvelé manifesté par les agences de développement, les donateurs et les gouvernements africains pour les contributions potentielles des organisations locales au soutien du développement en Afrique, cet article se fonde sur la littérature et les organisations locales africaines et non-africaines pour évaluer les problèmes rencontrés au cours du processus d'organisation et de soutien de quatre types d'organisa…
The Literature on Nigerian Federalism
Journal Article The Literature on Nigerian Federalism: A Critical Appraisal Get access Dele Olowu Dele Olowu Obafemi Awolowo University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 1991, Pages 155–171, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037967 Published: 01 January 1991
Regime transformation from below
Évaluation des politiques de décentralisation en Afrique dans les années quatre-vingt-dix
Evaluating African Decentralisation Policies and Programmes of the 1990s The onsets of liberalisation and democratisation have necessitated a third wave of decentralisation reforms in many African countries in the decade of the 1990s. The article discusses the extent to which the current decentralisation efforts have effectively tackled the problems, which bedevilled past efforts. It is shown that some countries in the region are indeed breaking …
Where Corruption Lives
This comprehensive global survey of official corruption in governance links theoretical perspectives to common practices found throughout the world. Ranging from liberal democracies to autocracies, the authors explore initiatives being taken by national governments and international organizations to combat and reduce corrupt practices
Introduction—Governance and Public Administration in the 21st Century
This article reviews the different approaches to the study of governance and how the concept and practice of governance is connected with public administration and public management. It examines the controversy surrounding the claim that a paradigm shift has occurred in the study of state-society-economy relationships. This has replaced public administration with public management. The paper suggests that the rediscovery of governance in public a…
African Governance and Civil Service Reforms
African civil services—as well as other components of the public service: parastatals and local governments—were created in the colonial period and patterned after the models of the colonizing power. The poor fit between expectations and actual performance has made them perpetual objects of reform in the post-independence era in most countries. In the wake of the economic and fiscal crises of the late 1970s, special attention has focused on revit…
Better Governance and Public Policy
Exploring the relationship between governance and development policy, the authors of this collection describe recent governance changes in a range of African countries, analyze the consequences of those changes for institutional reforms, and highlight the challenges involved in consolidating ongoing processes of economic liberalization and democratization
Challenge of multi-level governance in developing countries and possible GIS applications
Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective
Local Governance Reforms in Africa
At a time when the democratic governance resurgence of the 90s in developing countries is giving way to the disappointment and disillusionment at the retreat of democracy, it is opportune that the relationship between democratic and local governance is being given serious consideration by the International Association of Political Science globally (Diamond 2008). For quite sometime now, some of us had argued that democracy cannot be consolidated …
Civil service pay reforms in Africa
African civil services have been subjected to perpetual rounds of reforms that have in many cases aggravated problems because the core issue of how to pay for quality civil service on a sustained basis has not been given the much-deserved emphasis. Many African countries have lost the capacity to pay for a high quality civil service due in part to the poverty of their economies, the structure of politics and administration, globalization, and wro…
Introduction
The Failure Of The Centralized State
This book is an outcome of the workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, held in Indiana, during the 1985/86. It seeks to explains why the centralized African state has failed and discusses the breakdown of social processes indirectly caused by the policies of the centralized state
Governance and policy relevance of the Nigerian 40-year grassroots revolution
This article assesses the 40-year-old program of building a third level of governance in Nigeria to improve the democratic and developmental aspirations of Africa’s largest democracy, one of only two federally governed countries on the continent. The assessment relies on secondary and primary sources. The article finds that even though the reform was sustained over the years in terms of structural, financial and human resources capacity infusion …
Failure of the Centralized State
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