The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics

Herausgeber: Levan, A Carl; Ukata, Patrick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an authoritative and agenda-setting examination of Nigerian politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 173mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1501g
• ISBN-13: 9780192844927
• ISBN-10: 019284492X
• Artikelnr.: 61572405

Autorenporträt

A. Carl LeVan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Nigerian Party Competition in a Time of Transition and Terror (2019) as well as Dictators and Democracy in Africa Development: the Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria (2015). Patrick Ukata is the former Director of the American University and American University of Nigeria's Washington Office. He is currently a professorial lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Locating Nigeria in African History
* 1: Murray Last: From Borno to Sokoto: Meaning and Muslim Identities
in Northern Nigeria
* 2: Nonso Obikili: State Formation in Precolonial Nigeria
* 3: Shobana Shankar: Precolonial Christianity and Missionary Legacies
* 4: Wasiq N. Khan: The Atlantic Slave Trade and its Lasting Impact
* 5: Matthew M. Heaton and Toyin Falola: Colonial Rule
* 6: Rotimi Ajayi: The Anti-Colonial Struggle in Nigeria
* 7: Chiedo Nwankwor: Women's Protests in the Struggle for Independence
* 8: Cajetan Iheka: The Nigerian Novel and the Anti-Colonial
Imagination
* 9: Michael J. Watts: Ecologies of Rule: Politics, Political Economy
and Governing the Environment in Nigeria
* Part II: Political Institutions
* 10: Eghosa E. Osaghae: The Long Shadow of Nigeria's Military Epochs,
1966-1979 and 1983-1999
* 11: Olufunmbi M. Elemo: Fiscal Federalism, Subnational Politics, and
State Creation in Contemporary Nigeria
* 12: Joseph Olayinka Fashagba: The Legislatures in the First and
Second Republics
* 13: Rotimi T. Suberu: Legislative Development and Decadence in the
Fourth Republic National Assembly
* 14: Olufemi Vaughan: Sharia Politics, the 1999 Constitution, and the
Rise of the Fourth Republic
* 15: Yahaya T. Baba: Executive Dominance and Hyper Presidentialism in
Nigeria
* 16: Max Siollun: Civil Military Affairs and Military Culture in
Post-Transition Nigeria
* 17: Daniel Jordan Smith: Progress and Setbacks in Nigeria's
Anti-Corruption Efforts
* 18: Patrick Ukata: The Judiciary in Nigeria Since 1999
* 19: Nkwachukwu Orji: Elections and Electoral Performance
* 20: A. Carl LeVan and Abiodun Ajijola: Drivers and Dynamics of
Electoral Reform, 1999-2015
* 21: Adigun Agbaje, Adeolu Akande, and Jide Ojo: The People's
Democratic Party: From the 1999 Transition to the 2015 Turnover
* Part III: Civil Society
* 22: Darren Kew and Chris M. A. Kwaja: Civil Society in Nigeria
* 23: Jon Kraus: The Political Struggles of Nigerian Labor
* 24: Garhe Osiebe: In the trenches with Fela: Reassessing Protest
Political Music Culture before the Fourth Republic
* 25: Rita Kiki Edozie: Nigeria's Non-Western Democracy: A Postcolonial
Aspiration and Struggle with Opportunity, Conflict, and
Transformation
* 26: Cheryl O'Brien: Women's Contemporary Struggles for Rights and
Representation
* 27: Idayat Hassan: Human Rights Status in Nigeria Since Obasanjo'
Second Coming
* 28: Oliver Owen: Revenue and Representation: The Political Economy of
Public Participation
* Part IV: Economic and Social Sectors: Policies and Peoples
* 29: Kingsley Moghalu and Nonso Obikili: Fiscal Policy during Boom and
Bust
* 30: Peter M. Lewis: Nigeria's Petroleum Booms: A Changing Political
Economy
* 31: Zainab Usman: The 'Resource Curse' and the Constraints on
Reforming Nigeria's Oil Sector
* 32: Olusoji Adeyi, Oluwole Odutolu, John Idoko, and Phyllis Kanki:
Nigeria's Response to the HIV Epidemic
* Part V: Identity and Insecurity
* 33: Abimbola O. Adesoji: Islamic Social Movements and Political
Unrest in Nigerian History
* 34: Kyari Mohammed: The Origins of Boko Haram
* 35: Virginia Comolli: Boko Haram: Indigeneity, Internationalism, and
Insurgency
* 36: Obi Nwakanma: The Nigerian Civil War and the Biafran Secessionist
Revival
* 37: Omolade Adunbi: The Rise and Decline (and Rise) of the Niger
Delta Rebellion
* 38: Kemi Okenyodo: Crime, Cults, and Informal Security
* 39: V. Adefemi Isumonah: Land, Citizenship, and the Laws of
Disenfranchisement
* 40: Laura Thaut Vinson: Pastoralism, Ethnicity, and Subnational
Conflict Resolution in the Middle Belt
* 41: Oliver Coates: Nigeria and the World: War, Nationalism, and
Politics, 1914-1960
* 42: Elizabeth Donnelly and Daragh Neville: Nigeria and the
Commonwealth: Influence by Accident or Design
* 43: Asonzeh Ukah: Faith, Fame, and Fortune: Varieties of Nigerian
Worship in Global Christianity
* 44: Ian Taylor: he Pathology of Dependency: Sino-Nigerian Relatins as
a Case Study