| Title: | Personality variable in political leadership and decision-making: an analysis of Obafemi Awolowo's operational codes |
| Author: | Ogundimu, B.A. |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Periodical: | Quarterly Journal of Administration |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 217-238 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subject: | politicians |
| About person: | Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) |
| Abstract: | An area of policy studies that deals exclusively with the relationship between the personality of individual decisionmakers and the decisionmaking process is operational code analysis. This paper is an operational code analysis of Obafemi Awolowo's approach to public policy and decisionmaking. It examines Awolowo's operational codes in terms of several dimensions of Alexander George's analytical framework. We have identified twenty-four operational codes that guide Awolowo's political behaviour and decisionmaking style. Seventeen of these codes are philosophical beliefs while the other seven are instrumental beliefs. It is concluded that Awolowo's failure to capture or share federal power in pre-1966 Nigeria was strongly related to the fact that he is more of a political philosopher than a strategist and tactician. Ref. |
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