Political Transition in Nigeria, 1993-2003
Political Transition in Nigeria, 1993-2003

Author: Kayode Samuel

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789780232146

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This is a collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of Nigeria. Although written between 1999 and 2003, the focus of these essays reached far behind that period to the crises of the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections and its aftermath. The annulment marked a defining moment whose impact still haunts Nigeria's democratic experiment to date. The essays seek to offer both the general reader and professional an insight onto the issues, currents and trends that defined this watershed decade and its sequel, of which the current political dispensation is a part.

Contemporary Nigerian Politics
Contemporary Nigerian Politics

Author: A. Carl LeVan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1108569218

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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.

Dictators and Democracy in African Development
Dictators and Democracy in African Development

Author: A. Carl LeVan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107081149

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This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.

The Causes of Instability in Nigeria and Implications for the United States
The Causes of Instability in Nigeria and Implications for the United States

Author: Clarence J. Bouchat

Publisher: Army War College Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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The political economy problems of Nigeria, the root cause for ethnic, religious, political and economic strife, can be in part addressed indirectly through focused contributions by the U.S. military, especially if regionally aligned units are more thoroughly employed.

Governance and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria
Governance and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria

Author: S. Adejumobi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-20

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230115454

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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.

Federalism and Separatist Agitations in Nigeria
Federalism and Separatist Agitations in Nigeria

Author: Godwin Onu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-09-17

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1036411915

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This book offers a reflection on the tension between federalism and separatist agitations in Nigeria. The persistent clamour for restructuring as well as the widespread separatist agitations in the country depicts a moral expression. It does so against the backdrop of the prevailing waves of sub-nationalist tendencies in different parts of the country, including the threat of secession in the South East. Considered across the variegated themes that form the thrust of the books are select practical and theoretical insights that are relevant in repositioning the federalist praxis in Nigeria in the interest of national unity and stability. The book will come handy to the communities of scholars, policy makers and practitioners who are involved in the earnest search for an answer to the federalism dimension of Nigeria’s nagging National Question. Students and the general reading populace will find the contents of the book quite insightful.

Transition Without End
Transition Without End

Author: Larry Jay Diamond

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9781555875916

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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.

Civilian Rule In The Developing World
Civilian Rule In The Developing World

Author: Constantine P. Danopoulos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0429715056

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This book presents a number of case studies focusing on the factors, methods and means of civilian control of the military in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Guyana, Jamaica, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Ethnic Militias and the Threat to Democracy in Post-transition Nigeria
Ethnic Militias and the Threat to Democracy in Post-transition Nigeria

Author: Osita Agbu

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9789171065254

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The democratic opening presented by Nigeria's successful transition to civil rule (June 1998 to May 1999) unleashed a host of hitherto repressed or dormant political forces. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate between genuine demands by these forces on the state and outright criminality and mayhem. Post-transition Nigeria is experiencing the proliferation of ethnic militia movements purportedly representing, and seeking to protect, their ethnic interests in a country, which appears incapable of providing the basic welfare needs of its citizens.It is against the background of collective disenchantment with the Nigerian state, and the resurgence of ethnic identity politics that this research interrogates the growing challenge posed by ethnic militias to the Nigerian democracy project. The central thesis is that the over-centralization of power in Nigeria 's federal practice and the failure of post-transitional politics in genuinely addressing the "National Question," has resulted in the emergence of ethnic militias as a specific response to state incapacity. The short- and long-term threats posed by this development to Nigeria 's fragile democracy are real, and justify the call for a National Conference that will comprehensively address the demands of the ethnic nationalities.