Topic of thesis: Institutional Designs and Quality of Land Property Rights Administration: Lessons from Selected Nigerian States

Abstract: The aim of this research project is an inquiry into the impact of institutional design on policy outcomes – specifically, the project seeks to examine the different implementation styles adopted by some Nigerian states in the reforms on land property rights. The reforms as gauged by the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index shows that the outcomes were mixed; while they were considered a success in some states, in others they were seen as failed reforms. Thus, the research question the project seeks to answer is: under which state institutional designs the quality of the administration of land property rights is high, and under which ones their administration is poor instead? The study focuses on institutional designs as a configuration of (a) decision-making rights and of (b) accountability obligations which together shape the behavior of agencies’ in policy implementation. This according to the delegation theory arises from the interplay of the contents of two different sets of procedural prescriptions: on the one side, the mandates to decide, which establish boundaries, conditions and aims of their legitimate discretion; on the other, the obligations to account, which enforce, relax or restrict such latitude. Therefore, the project seeks to further the applicability of delegation literature to weak institutional contexts by exploring variations in institutional designs of delegation across some selected states in Nigeria

Research interests: Institutions, Accountability, Policy Implementation, Policy Evaluation, Development Management

Graduated from: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (Bsc), Nigerian Defense Academy (Master), Università Degli Studi di Torino (MA) 

Degrees obtained: Bachelor of Science Political Science, Master of Development Studies, Master of Arts Public Policy and Social Change

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