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Contemporary Nigerian politics : competition in a time of transition and terror
- Title
- Contemporary Nigerian politics : competition in a time of transition and terror / A. Carl LeVan.
- Author
- LeVan, A. Carl
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xiv, 287 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party. Here, 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 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-275) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The end of a new beginning: Nigeria's transition, 1999-2015 -- The rational counterterrorist? Economic policy and insurgent insecurity in Nigeria's 2015 presidential campaign -- Voting against violence? Economic uncertainty and physical insecurity in 2015 -- Electoral integrity, ethnic affinity and religious revival in Nigeria's party turnover -- Subnational subversion and institutional stress -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1217
- ISBN
- 9781108459747
- 1108459749
- 9781108472494
- 1108472494
- LCCN
- 2018039008
- OCLC
- 1050455902
- Author
- LeVan, A. Carl, author.
- Title
- Contemporary Nigerian politics : competition in a time of transition and terror / A. Carl LeVan.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-275) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 2000
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1217