Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

This article undertook an assessment of “Demotocracy”, “Familotocracy” and “Implemental Theory of Budgeting” as new and emerging concepts in political science. The formulation and examination of these triple concepts were not the consequence of human intuition, but the result of critical reasoning and research that arose from the character and method of public policy implementation in Imo State from 2011 to 2015. The qualitative (document/phenomenological studies) and quantitative (Descriptive Survey) methods were employed in the data gathering and analysis process. The findings from the qualitative and quantitative analysis of available data showed that the principles governing democracy and the democratic process especially the policy implementation process were terribly corrupted by the political class in Imo State from 2011 to 2015. This corruption of democracy especially the policy implementation process is what propelled the researcher to seek for alternative concepts or terms that could best describe these abnormalities or aberrations and their possible solution. Moreover, the findings of this work is not only peculiar to Imo State and Nigeria alone, but could also be found in many states and societies especially in the less developing world. However, the search for a lasting and sustainable solution to these democratic aberrations of demotocracy and familotocracy led to the formulation of “Implemental Theory of Budgeting”, which is a pro-active, punitive and results-oriented budgeting tool.

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