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PRESERVING FEDERALISM, LOCAL AUTONOMY IN A RESOURCE DEPENDENT RURAL STATE: A CASE OF NIGERIA

The Paper explores the practical implications of the new political economy of federalism, Tiebout hypothesis and the subsidiarity principle all of which couched around the modern market system of federal governance. Focusing on Nigeria’s experimentation, the paper casts a dissenting voice to the emergent converging proposition of the new political economy of federalism by arguing that federal governance is not merely a matter of market efficiency because the distinctive features of plural societies often require that both principles of good economics and federal governance be subordinated to p…