Democracy, Good Governance And Nation Building: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
Keywords:
Democracy, good governance, nation building, multi-dimensional approachAbstract
This research reinforced the multi-disciplinary approach to the study of democracy, good governance and nation building through the application of systems and integration theories and structural functional approach. Indeed, this is a variant of sociological and political knowledge that would revolutionalize democracy, good governance and nation building in Nigeria and Africa. The inter-relatedness of human and material resources as well as their interactions is reflected in systems and integration theories as well as the structural functional approach to the practice of democracy, good governance and nation building. The crisis of development and democracy is resolved by the application of systems, integration and structural functional theory to good governance and nation building by Anatol Rapoport, Talcott Parson, David Easton, Gabriel Almond, Ernest Haas and Amitai Etzione.
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