尼日利亚40年基层革命的治理与政策相关性:1976-2016年

Governance and policy relevance of the Nigerian 40-year grassroots revolution:1976-2016

本文对尼日利亚持续40年的第三级治理建设计划进行了评估,该计划旨在改进作为非洲最大的民主国家、也是非洲大陆仅有的两个联邦制国家之一的尼日尼亚的民主和发展愿景。评估依赖第二及第一手资料来源。文章发现,尽管多年来改革在结构、财政和人力资源能力的注入方面持续了多年,并进行了一系列民主化的改革,但是该计划只在军队掌权的前四年是成功的。文章提议通过加强所有三级治理的问责制安排和对城乡基础设施采取不对称的融资方式,从而使该制度适应于民间治理。这将使地方政府机构能够真正发挥基层结构的作用,从下到上建立和维持民主和发展,以对现任政府的出口导向型战略形成有益补充。

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 and a raft of changes to democratize the institution,the program was only successful in the first four years while the military was in power.The article proposes measures to make this institution adapt to civilian governance through enhancing accountability arrangements at all the three levels of governance and an asymmetric approach to financing infrastructures in the cities and rural areas.These would enable the local government institutions to actually function as grassroots structures for building and sustaining democracy and development from below complementing the export-led strategy of the present government.