Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999-2023
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-84701-351-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 464 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Western Africa Series

'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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adebanwi, Wale

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ibrahim, Jibrin

Onuoha, Browne

Agbaje, Adigun

Husaini, Sa'eed

Umar, Aliyu Modibbo

Isumonah, V. Adefemi

Page, Matthew

Owen, Olly

Burns, Sarah

Eyene Okpanachi, Eyene

Orji, Nwachukwu

Hassan, Idayat

Animasawun, Gbemisola

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Adebanwi, Wale
Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016) and editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa (2017).

Agbaje, Adigun
Adigun Agbaje is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Visiting Professor and Director-General, Oba (Dr) Sikiru Kayode Adetona I statute for Governance Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He is the author of The Nigerian Press, Hegemony, and the Social Construction of Legitimacy, 1960-1983.

Isumonah, V. Adefemi
V. Adefemi Isumonah is a Professor of Political Science and former Head of Department, University of Ibadan. He is co-author of Confronting Islamist Terrorism in Africa: The Cases of Nigeria and Kenya and Federal Presence in Nigeria: The Sung and Unsung Basis for Ethnic Grievance.

Ibrahim, Jibrin
Jibrin Ibrahim is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Development, CDD, where he had earlier served as Director. Ibrahim has lectured, published and consulted extensively on democratisation and governance in Africa.

Burns, Sarah
Sarah Burns is Founder and CEO of Nia Impact Consult Ltd. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she teaches on integrating the private sector with development. She has advised for the CDC, IFC, World Bank and HNWIs.

Umar, Aliyu Modibbo
Aliyu Modibbo Umar was a Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford (2019-2021), Lecturer in the University of Abuja (1993-1994). He was previously Nigeria's Federal Minister of State for Power and Steel (2002-2003), Minister of Commerce and Industry (2006-2007), and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (2007-2008).

Husaini, Sa'eed
Sa'eed Husaini is a Research Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) and a post-doctoral researcher on the UCRI-GCFR funded project on Migration, Urbanization, and Conflict (MUCA) at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He completed a DPhil in International Development at the University of Oxford in 2019.

Animasawun, Gbemisola
Gbemisola Animasawun is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Center for Peace & Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His essays have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, edited books, policy briefs, working papers and op-eds that have earned him national and international research grants and honour.

Orji, Nwachukwu
Nkwachukwu Orji is a research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Between 2017 and 2022, he served as a Resident Electoral Commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Hassan, Idayat
Idayat Hassan is the Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), an Abuja (Nigeria) think-tank focusing on deepening democracy and development in West Africa. Her interests span democracy, peace and security, transitional justice, and ICT4D across West Africa.

Onuoha, Browne
Browne Onuoha of the Political Science Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Social Dynamics, Contemporary Justice Review, African Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Asia Journal of Global Studies.

Eyene Okpanachi, Eyene
Eyene Okpanachi is Marie Curie Fellow at the University of South Wales, UK. He was previously Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar at the University of Alberta.

Owen, Olly
Olly Owen is an anthropologist and political economist, currently a Research Associate at University of Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. He is also a Technical Advisor to Ekiti State Government.

Page, Matthew
Matthew T. Page is a non-resident scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA, Associate Fellow with the Africa Programme at Chatham House, UK, and non-resident fellow with the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria. He co-authored Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018).