Democracy, Good Governance and Nation Building: A Multi-Dimensional Approach

This research reinforced the multi-disciplinary approach tothe study of democracy, good governance and nation buildingthrough the application of systems and integration theoriesand structural functional approach. Indeed, this is a variantof sociological and political knowledge that wouldrevolutionalize democracy, good governance and nationbuilding in Nigeria and Africa. The inter-relatedness ofhuman and material resources as well as their interactionsis reflected in systems and integration theories as well asthe structural functional approach to the practice ofdemocracy, good governance and nation building. The crisisof development and democracy is resolved by the applicationof systems, integration and structural functional theory togood governance and nation building by Anatol Rapoport,Talcott Parson, David Easton, Gabriel Almond, Ernest Haasand Amitai Etzione.