The paper reveals the conceptual links between power, empowerment and participatory development. Participatory development is deeply rooted with gender issues since participation means inclusion of all kinds of women of the society in to the development process. Participatory development is the...

This study x-rayed the significance of civic political culture on participatory governance and its potentialities on political development. It adopted theoretical postulations in analyzing the subject matter. The analytical model showed a diagrammatic presentation of the relationship among...