Contemporary Nigerian politics : competition in a time of transition and terror / A. Carl LeVan.
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LeVan, A. Carl (författare)
- ISBN 9781108472494
- Publicerad: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019
- Copyright: ©2019
- Engelska xiv, 287 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
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- 1. Introduction -- 2. The end of a new beginning: Nigeria's transition, 1999-2015 -- 3. The rational counterterrorist? Economic policy and insurgent insecurity in Nigeria's 2015 presidential campaign -- 4. Voting against violence? Economic uncertainty and physical insecurity in 2015 -- 5. Electoral integrity, ethnic affinity and religious revival in Nigeria's party turnover -- 6. Subnational subversion and institutional stress -- 7. Conclusion.
- "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."
Ämnesord
- Demokrati (sao)
- Politiska förhållanden (sao)
- Elections -- Nigeria -- 21st century. (LCSH)
- Democracy -- Nigeria. (LCSH)
- Elections -- Nigeria -- 21st century. (LCSH)
- Democracy. (fast)
- Elections. (fast)
- Politics and government. (fast)
- Val (statsvetenskap) -- historia (sao)
- Democracy (LCSH)
- Nigeria (sao)
- Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 2007- (LCSH)
- Nigeria. (fast)
- 2000-talet (sao)
- Since 2000 (fast)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Institutionsnamn
- People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) -- History.
- People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)
Klassifikation
- JQ3096 (LCC)
- 324.9669056 (DDC)
- Oc.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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