Democratic Governance and Participatory Budgeting: A Theoretical Discourse of the Nigerian Experience
This paper examines the issue of Democratic governance and participatory budgeting in the context of their relevance, challenges and implications for the public sector finances and/or public spending and, the masses in Nigeria. It specifically focuses on the Nigerian experience/situation. The necessary interconnectedness among these concepts was identified and examined vis-à-vis the implications of such affinities for the people’s ability to understand where the ultimate powers over public policies in these respects abound.
