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PAD 113 Elements of Government

ND1 level26 topics

PAD 113 covers 26 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Basic concepts in government and politics
  2. Nation, state and nation-state
  3. Arms of government
  4. Separation of powers and checks and balances
  5. Rule of law and independence of the judiciary
  6. Legislatures: unicameral and bicameral
  7. Forms and systems of government
  8. Constitutions and their features
  9. Political parties and electoral systems
  10. Pressure groups and franchise
  11. Pre-colonial and colonial governance in Nigeria
  12. Military rule and governance in Nigeria
  13. Inter-governmental relations in Nigeria
  14. Constitutional basis of inter-governmental relations
  15. Problems of inter-governmental relations
  16. Military interventions in Nigeria
  17. Dynamics of military rule in Nigeria
  18. Military influence on public administration
  19. Public service efficiency problems
  20. Solutions to public service inefficiency
  21. Administrative reforms in Nigeria
  22. Major public service reform commissions and panels
  23. Federal character policy
  24. Indigenization in Nigeria
  25. Nigerian Indigenization Decree
  26. Successes and failures of indigenization

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Basic concepts in government and politics

The core ideas in this topic are the definitions of key political terms such as state, government, sovereignty, authority, legitimacy, democracy, and authoritarianism, and the relationships among them. Mastering these concepts is essential because exam questions often test the ability to distinguish between similar terms and to explain how they interact in a political system.

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