Author: Abubakar Momoh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Akinyemi F. Famakin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423503774
Category : Civil-military relations
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that such structural explanations as economic underdevelopment, ethnic fragmentation, and political corruption for the collapse of democracy in Nigeria in 1966, are insufficient. This study further demonstrates that the immediate cause of the collapse was the failure of the young democratic government to respond to the challenge posed by military opportunism through adequate civilian control strategies. The thesis argues that democratization is attainable in Nigeria if elected governments devise appropriate control strategies to check military opportunism while strengthening and legitimizing their own rule. It acknowledged that the first government of Nigeria's Fourth Republic, installed on May 29 1999, appears to have learned this lesson. The thesis concludes that constant vigilance on the part of successive governments will be essential as the Fourth Republic passes through the long process of democratic transition and consolidation.

Author: Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: ʼLai Olurode
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil-military relations
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Jürgen Rüland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642296246
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This volume seeks to explain why democratization and military reforms stagnate in newly democratizing countries. The contributions blend historical, ideational, cultural and structural explanatory factors to analyze the trajectories of military reform in Indonesia and Nigeria, two major regional powers that share many structural commonalities. In the tradition of the literature on security sector reform (SSR), the book not only scrutinizes executive initiatives toward military reform, but also provides ample coverage of societal actors. Findings show that while military reform is stagnating in both countries, societal forces ought to be taken into account more as major driving forces in explaining military reform. Several chapters study how legislatures, non-governmental organizations and the civilian defence epistemic community contribute to the transformation of military institutions. The last part of the book tackles another aspect rarely studied in the literature on military reform, namely, the role of militias in military reform.

Author: Magnus Oduwa Osaghae
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783659295188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The Nigeria military took over the political terrain in January 1966 accusing the First Republic politicians of corruption and mismanagement. The foundation of governance created in Nigeria politics during 1960 to 1966 was a reflection of ethnicity, political corruption, questionable national security, maladministration, prejudice, improper representation, confusing state of policy propagation, and a drifting nation in overview. The inability for the civilian government of Tafawa Belewa to conduct a free and fair election to transit to another civil rule created the avenue for military in Nigerian politics.

Author: J. Isawa Elaigwu
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: Rotgak I. Gofwen
Publisher: S.N. Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Civil-military relations
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: A. Carl LeVan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108569218
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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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.