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DEVELOPMENTAL STATE BUREAUCRACY IN NIGERIA: RESTRUCTURING FOR EFFECTIVENESS (1999-2007)

It is axiomatic to posit that bureaucracy occupies a prominent position in the study of public administration. The power and authority over a well-organized bureaucracy is overwhelming and overbearing. The political office holder finds himself always flowing and sinking in bureaucratic interpretations of his action. This sinking and flowing find expression in developmental states. Moreover, the success of developmental state is located in a professional bureaucracy that makes and implies policy in alliance with the elites. This paper examines the socio-economic and political reforms under form…