Author : Augustine A. Ikein
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Taking Nigeria as a case study, this book examines how the various issues involved in fiscal federalism in a developing country are handled.
Author : Kunle Amuwo
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN :
Twenty essays by four generations of Nigerian scholars are included in this volume, the first to examine the historical, political, economic and comparative dimensions of attempts by the military to restructure the Nigerian federation. Evidence is accumulated in support of the book's central thesis that autocratic rule is antipathetic to the sustenance of genuine federal practice, and that federal restructuring initiated under the tight control of repressive governments cannot but lead to a situation in which federalism is assaulted, if not dismantled. It is argued that, in such a context, the vending of a federal doctrine becomes more or less an exercise in the propagation of false consciousness in the service of power - portraying a picture of divided power to hide the reality of undivided power.
Author : Dele Babalola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030054934
This book uses the political economy approach to examine the relative failure of federalism in Nigeria. It shows the nexus between the political and the economic aspects of the country’s federalism. The central feature of Nigeria’s political economy is the relationship between oil resources and the state. The author argues that the inability of the federal government to distribute the oil wealth fairly amongst the component units contributes to the dysfunctional character of the federal system. This deficiency is rooted in the country’s unbalanced political economy, which promotes over-dependency on oil and consequently an over-centralised federal system. The book concludes that despite its complexities, federalism has become the basis for the country’s stability. Therefore, ethno-regional demands for ‘true federalism’ will continue until the political elite reform the ailing federal system.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108837972
An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Author : P. Collier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230583199
This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolve. It presents an agenda of reform as unfinished business.
Author : Rotimi T. Suberu
Publisher : 成甲書房
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781929223282
FOREWORD by Larry Diamond
Author : Rotimi Ajayi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303050509X
This volume engages in an in-depth discussion of Nigerian politics. Written by an expert group of Nigerian researchers, the chapters provide an overarching, Afrocentric view of politics in Nigeria, from pre-colonial history to the current federal system. The book begins with a series of historical chapters analyzing the development of Nigeria from its traditional political institutions through the First Republic. After establishing the necessary historical context, the next few chapters shift the focus to specific political institutions and phenomena, including the National Assembly, local government and governance, party politics, and federalism. The remaining chapters discuss issues that continue to affect Nigerian politics: the debt crisis, oil politics in the Niger Delta, military intervention and civil-military relations, as well as nationalism and inter-group relations. Providing an overview of Nigerian politics that encompasses history, economics, and public administration, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African politics, African studies, democracy, development, history, and legislative studies.
Author : S. Adejumobi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0230115454
This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It analyzes the progress made in Nigeria since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and the prospects of democratic consolidation in the country.
Author : Kalu N. Kalu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739119563
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary path of Nigeria's political development. Drawing from the historical themes that existed before and after independence, Kalu N. Kalu elucidates the challenging role of an oil-dependent economy in the struggle for control of state power in the face of political corruption, clientelism, and market failures.
Author : Richard A. Joseph
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107633532
Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the state treasury and to control over remunerative licenses and contracts. In addition, the abiding desire for a democratic political system is frustrated by the deepening of ethnic, linguistic and regional identities. By exploring the ways in which individuals at all social levels contribute to the maintenance of these practices, the book provides an analysis of the impediments to constitutional democracy that is also relevant to the study of other nations.
