Contesting The Nigerian State

Author : M. Okome
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137324538
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting the Nigerian State written by M. Okome and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In public choice theory, the received wisdom has long been that self-organization is an impediment to collective action, whether via the tragedy of the commons or a Hobbesian scenario in which self-interest produces social conflict rather than cooperation. Yet as this fascinating collection shows, self-organization and state-society relations have been much more complicated in the context of contemporary Nigerian politics. Given the absence or unwillingness of the Nigerian state to provide essential services, entire communities have had to band together to repair roads, build health centers, and maintain public utilities, all from levies. The successes, failures, and ongoing challenges faced by Nigerian society provide valuable insights into the state's capacity, its relationship with civil society, and the social, economic, and political well-being of its citizens.

Author : M. Okome
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137324538
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting the Nigerian State written by M. Okome and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In public choice theory, the received wisdom has long been that self-organization is an impediment to collective action, whether via the tragedy of the commons or a Hobbesian scenario in which self-interest produces social conflict rather than cooperation. Yet as this fascinating collection shows, self-organization and state-society relations have been much more complicated in the context of contemporary Nigerian politics. Given the absence or unwillingness of the Nigerian state to provide essential services, entire communities have had to band together to repair roads, build health centers, and maintain public utilities, all from levies. The successes, failures, and ongoing challenges faced by Nigerian society provide valuable insights into the state's capacity, its relationship with civil society, and the social, economic, and political well-being of its citizens.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Election of Nigerian State Governors written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard A. Joseph
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107633532
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria written by Richard A. Joseph and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108569218
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Nigerian Politics written by A. Carl LeVan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113767
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nigeria and the Nation-State written by John Campbell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria matters. It is Africa’s largest economy, and it is projected to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050, but its democratic aspirations are challenged by rising insecurity. John Campbell traces the fractured colonial history and contemporary ethnic conflicts and political corruption that define Nigeria today. It was not—and never had been—a nation-state like those of Europe. It is still not quite a nation because Nigerians are not yet united by language, religion, culture, or a common national story. It is not quite a state because the government is weak and getting weaker, beset by Islamist terrorism, insurrection, intercommunal violence, and a countrywide crime wave. This deeply knowledgeable book is an antidote to those who would make the mistakes of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq—mistakes based on misunderstanding—in Nigeria. Up to now, such mistakes have largely been avoided, but Nigeria will soon—and Campbell argues already does—require much greater attention by the West.

Author : Omano Edigheji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789789800803
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nigeria written by Omano Edigheji and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a paradoxical relationship between democracy and development in Nigeria. In the twenty years of electoral democracy, poverty, inequality, unemployment, underemployment and insecurity have increased. The hopes of citizens that democracy would lead to improved living standards have been dashed. Social justice and inclusive sustainable development have also been elusive. The economy has remained dependent on 2 primary sectors - agriculture and oil - and low value added services.The aspiration that by 2020, Nigeria would become one of the twenty leading economies in the world has not been achieved, the political elite have captured the state for personal gains and unsurprisingly, Nigeria remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Author : Olayemi Akinwumi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825861971
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Contest for the Nigerian Region, 1884-1900 written by Olayemi Akinwumi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines German participation in the colonial contest for Nigeria during the scramble for and partition of Africa at the end of the nineteenth Century. It focuses on the activities of some German individuals and organisations that were actively engaged in the struggle to acquire the Nigerian region as a colony for Germany. There are two reasons for this failure: one, lack of consisient colonial policy during Bismarck's era and two, the Opposition of the Royal Niger Company. The only success recorded in Nigeria was in Adamawa and Borno. Germany got some parts of these emirates as a result of the determination of the Royal Niger Company, supported by the British government, to deny the French any access to the navigable part of the two major rivers. Germany retained control of this region until the outbreak of the First World War.

Author : Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230112609
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.

Author : B. Oyeniran Adediji
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477259597
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Issues and Accountability in Nigeria’S Public Administration written by B. Oyeniran Adediji and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging Issues and Accountability in Nigerias Public Administration is an attempt to treat in essay form a wide range of topics which have recently gained the trend of intensive research focus and scholarly attention of the authors. Here is a book which a selective reader can not afford to miss , a book which a reader would continue to read times without number . It is indeed an indispensable acquisition for personal and institutional libraries.