Author: Eme EkekwePublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Class and State in Nigeria
Author: Eme EkekwePublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Nigerian State
Author: William D. GrafPublisher: James Currey
ISBN: 9780852553145
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria
Author: Larry DiamondPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria’s First Republic erased what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new nations, it accelerated the slide into a ghastly civil war. Class, Ethnicity and Democracy is the first scholarly study to analyze the evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria’s First Republic and to weigh this crucial experience against theories of the conditions for stable democratic government. Rejecting explanations that focus on political culture, political institutions, or ethnic competition and conflict, Larry Diamond identifies the root of Nigeria’s democratic failure in the interrelationship between class, ethnic and state structures. This led the emergent dominant class in each region to mobilize and exploit ethnicity and to trample the democratic process in furious competition for state control, since that control was the primary means for accumulating wealth and consolidating class dominance. Tracing the polarization of conflict and the erosion of legitimacy through five major crises, Diamond presents a new methodology for analyzing the persistence and failure of democracies and points to the relationship between state and society as a crucial determinant of the possibility for liberal democracy.
Class, Politics and the State in Nigeria
Author: Gavin WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Class and State in Nigeria
Author: Eme EkekwePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Class Formation and the Changing Structures of the State in Nigeria
Author: Eme EkekweNigeria
Author: Eme EkekweNigeria and the Nation-State
Author: John CampbellPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538197812
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
State, Society and Middle Class in Nigeria
Author: ʼLai OlurodePublisher:
ISBN: 9789789642519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
State, Class and Underdevelopment in Nigeria and Early Meiji Japan
Author: Sakah Saidu MahmudPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349139416
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book compares the social processes that explain Japanese development, beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with similar processes in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development. Before the Restoration and independence, both Japan and Nigeria lacked any prospects for further development. Japan, however, pursued fundamental social transformations of society leading to capitalist development, whereas Nigeria, following independence, has lacked any transforming ideals resulting in underdevelopment and social stagnation.