Assessing Democracy in the Context of Good Governance: A Focus on Kogi State
Chilebo, Francisca Ngowundu
Department of Political Science
Nasrawa State University of Education, Keffi
Email: chilebofranciscal@gmail.com
ABSTRACT:
Every humansociety, as primitive or civilised it may be, has its own system of organization.Though the idea of democracy is old as the history of organised human societies, its contemporary practice connotes a new version or an improvement over what was obtainable in ancient Greeks, or even in the pre-colonial African political systems. As society evolves and undergoes transformation, so are emerging challenges that require new thinking and solutions. It is against this backdrop that political philosophers since the days of Plato and Aristotle in ancient to those of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu etc, have been preoccupied with how best to organize society for the good of the people.It is in the light of this development thatAristotle carried out a study of constitutions where he arrived at the idea of democracy as the best form of political organization comparable to monarchy and oligarchy.
