Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic (eBook, PDF)

Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999-2023
Redaktion: Adebanwi, Wale

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Today we are taking a decisive step on the path of democracy,' the newly sworn-in President Olusegun Obasanjo told Nigerians on 27 May 1999. 'We will leave no stone unturned to ensure sustenance of democracy, because it is good for us, it is good for Africa, and it is good for the world.' Nigeria's Fourth Republic has survived longer than any of the previous three Republics, the most durable Republic in Nigeria's more than six decades of independence. At the same time, however, the country has witnessed sustained periods of violence, including violent clashes over the imposition of Sharia'h laws, insurgency in the Niger Delta, inter-ethnic clashes, and the Boko Haram insurgency. Despite these tensions of, and anxieties about, democratic viability and stability in Nigeria, has democratic rule come to stay in Africa's most populous country? Are the overall conditions of Nigerian politics, economy and socio-cultural dynamics now permanently amenable to uninterrupted democratic rule? Have all the social forces which, in the past, pressed Nigeria towards military intervention and autocratic rule resolved themselves in favour of unbroken representative government? If so, what are the factors and forces that produced this compromise and how can Nigeria's shallow democracy be sustained, deepened and strengthened? This book attempts to address these questions by exploring the various dimensions of Nigeria's Fourth Republic in a bid to understand the tensions and stresses of democratic rule in a deeply divided major African state. The contributors engage in comparative analysis of the political, economic, social challenges that Nigeria has faced in the more than two decades of the Fourth Republic and the ways in which these were resolved - or left unresolved - in a bid to ensure the survival of democratic rule. This key book that examines both the quality of Nigeria's democratic state and its international relations, and issues such as human rights and the peace infrastructure, will be invaluable in increasing our understanding of contemporary democratic experiences in the neo-liberal era in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800109933
• Artikelnr.: 68626629

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Democratization and Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Successes and
Challenges Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti State of Nigeria Nigeria's
Fourth Republic: An Introduction Wale Adebanwi PART I: DEMOCRACY AND THE
NIGERIAN STATE 1. Reconstructions, Resilience and Relevance: Political
Elites and Ethnic Mobilization, 1999-2019 Eghosa E. Osaghae 2. Federalism,
Constitutional Reform, and the Elusive Quest for "Political Restructuring"
in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Rotimi Suberu 3. Democracy in Nigeria: Crises
and Consequences of Military Dictatorship Browne Onuoha PART II: PARTY
POLITICS, THE PRESIDENCY AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 4. Democratic
Regression, Political Parties and the Negation of the Popularity Principle
Jibrin Ibrahim 5. A Republic of Dashed Hopes? Party Politics and the
Travails of Democracy in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Adigun Agbaje 6.
Governing Party Constituency-building in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Sa'eed
Husaini 7. Presidential Leadership Styles in the Fourth Republic Aliyu
Modibbo Umar and V. Adefemi Isumonah 8. Double Standards or Different
Lenses? Comparing US Approaches to the Buhari and Abacha Governments
Matthew T. Page PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY: OIL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS
9. We live in the Future: Is Nigeria no longer an Oil State? Sarah Burns
and Olly Owen 10. Economic Reforms and Human Development in Post-Military
Nigeria: A Critical Assessment Eyene Okpanachi PART IV: ELECTORAL
GOVERNANCE, CIVIL-POLITICAL SOCIETY AND CONFLICT 11. The Promise and
Problems of Electoral Reforms Nkwachukwu Orji 12. From a Human Rights
Movement to Civil Society: Changing Contours of Civic Groups Idayat Hassan
13. Communal Conflicts, State Responses, and Local Peace Infrastructure
Gbemisola Animasawun Afterword: Nigeria's Long Search for a Viable
Political Order Larry Diamond