Transition to Democracy in Nigeria (1985-1993)
Author : Tunji Olagunju
Publisher : Spectrum _
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Tunji Olagunju
Publisher : Spectrum _
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781555875916
This study examines the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the regime of General Babangida. Providing historical narrative and political analysis, it chronicles the descent from the promise of reform to a political and economic depression.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2022
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781685856199
The authors examine the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993), chronicling the country's descent from the promise of reform and renewal to an unprecedented political and economic depression.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
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Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108569218
In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's largest party in the face of elite bargains that facilitated a democratic transition in 1999. These 'pacts' enabled electoral competition but ultimately undermined the party's coherence. LeVan also crucially examines the four critical barriers to Nigeria's democratic consolidation: the terrorism of Boko Haram in the northeast, threats of Igbo secession in the southeast, lingering ethnic resentments and rebellions in the Niger Delta, and farmer-pastoralist conflicts. While the PDP unsuccessfully stoked fears about the opposition's ability to stop Boko Haram's terrorism, the opposition built a winning electoral coalition on economic growth, anti-corruption, and electoral integrity. Drawing on extensive interviews with a number of politicians and generals and civilians and voters, he argues that electoral accountability is essential but insufficient for resolving the representational, distributional, and cultural components of these challenges.
Author : Nigeria. President (1985-1993 : Babangida)
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Democratization
ISBN :
Author : Daniel C. Bach
Publisher : Institut français de recherche en Afrique
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788025005
The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria’s darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very close to the features associated with warlordism. Nepotism, corruption, violation of human rights, procrastination over the implementation of a democratic transition, and the exploitation of ethnic, cultural or religious identities, also resulted in the accumulation of harshly repressed frustrations. In this book, some distinguished scholars, journalists and civil society activists examine this process of democratic recession, and its institutional, sociological, federal and international ramifications. Most of the contributions were originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux.
Author : Ian Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
Author : Nigeria. President (1985-1993 : Babangida)
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Elections
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Author : Torrance Stephens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781533205544
In 1992, upon completing my Doctorate, I received the opportunity to do my post-doctoral work in Nigeria working with Africare International for a year. Although I was housed in Southeastern Nigeria in Owerri, Imo State, I traveled all around the nation including but not limited to Lagos, Calabar, Kano, Kaduna, Benin, Ife, Afikpo, Mbaise and Port Harcourt. My work involved serving as a research specialist with a Maternal Health and Child Survival project with an emphasis on infectious disease control. Unknowingly, I had arrived during period that saw the country under military rule via the leadership of when General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB). More interestingly was that it was also during the start of what was called the transition to the Third Republic. The Third Republic would be the attempt to return the nation to civilian rule from military rule. Originally, General Babangida informed the citizens of Nigeria that he would end military rule in 1990, after the general had lifted the ban on political activity the spring of the year before. In an attempt to reduce the corruption, IBB outlawed all prior political parties and created two new ones: the National Republican Convention (NRC) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The goal of this book is not so much to provide a history lesson, but rather to demonstrate how the period in which the transition to the Third Republic was portrayed in the Nigerian national print media. One thing that stood out was that I observed how people read papers voraciously; often reading five or six papers a day. This was not unusual because there were easily thirty or more daily newspapers nationwide, all sold across the country. So in between my work, I began to read the newspapers each day and became interested in the presidential elections, which resulted in this book. It is not a complete presentation of the occurrences, but it is intricate and detailed in its objective presentation