Legislative effectiveness in Nigeria’s National Assembly: an institutional assessment approach

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dc.contributor.authorBakare Adebola Rafiu
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-02T11:27:14Z
dc.date.available2025-05-02T11:27:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractOver the years, legislative scholars have designed different approaches, indicators, benchmarks and assessment toolkits for evaluating the legislature. These range from self-assessment guide to minimum criteria for legislative performance. However, the applications of these assessment toolkits seem difficult in evaluating the Nigerian legislature. It is against this backdrop that this paper employed a modification and domestication of Volden and Wiseman’s LES model to come up with a measuring toolkit: ILES Model suitable for comparative evaluation of the Nigerian legislature using institutional approach. The ILES model was used to evaluate the National Assembly over three Assemblies and the findings show that the Nigerian legislature was ineffective during the 4th Assembly and fairly effective during the 5th and 6th Assemblies. Based on the volume of Bills processed, the paper concludes that the National Assembly has a high prospect to perform better, thus recommended, among others, a robust capacity building for lawmakers especially on how to push Bills through the legislative cycle to become laws that will impact positively on the people.
dc.identifier.citationBakare, A. R. (2020). Legislative effectiveness in Nigeria’s National Assembly: an institutional assessment approach. NILDS Journal of Democratic Studies. 1(1); 58 – 85, Published by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, National Assembly, Abuja.
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/15863
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNILDS
dc.relation.ispartofseries1(1); 58-85
dc.subjectLegislative effectiveness
dc.subjectInstitutionalism
dc.subjectAssessment benchmark
dc.subjectLawmaking
dc.subjectNational Assembly.
dc.titleLegislative effectiveness in Nigeria’s National Assembly: an institutional assessment approach
dc.typeArticle

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