Dictators and democracy in African development : the political economy of good governance in Nigeria / A. Carl LeVan.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-274) and index.

This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Government Performance in the Literature -- The Regime Type Explanation: Does Democracy Deliver? -- State Wealth: Poor States, Poor Performance? -- Ethnicity Explanations: Primordialism and Parochialism -- Leadership -- An Alternative Explanation -- The Structure of the Book -- 1 A Theory of Institutions, Preferences, and Performance -- Veto Player Theory: Defining the Terms

A Typology of Veto Players and Criteria for Identifying Them -- Informal Institutions and Veto Power through Military Factions and Regional Vetoes -- The Policy Consequences of Veto Players -- Factors Determining Veto Player Impact -- Formulating Hypotheses from the "Distributional" and "Commitment" Traditions -- Conclusion -- 2 Veto Players in Nigeria's Political History since Independence -- Two Veto Players in the First Republic's First Government (1960-1964) -- Coalition Collapse and the First Republic under a Single Veto Player (1965)

Education Policy Performance and Student/Teacher Ratios -- Local Collective Goods and Government Consumption -- Predicting Nigeria's Policy Performance with Veto Players -- Controlling for Intervening Factors -- Testing the Coordination Hypothesis -- Testing the Logroll Hypothesis -- Nigeria's Madisonian Dilemma -- A Qualitative Examination of Policy Performance, 1961-2007 -- Postcolonial and Postwar Government Performance -- The Second Republic and Nigeria's Second Attempt at Democracy -- Authoritarian Rule: The Long Stretch, 1983-1999 -- The Return of Democracy, the Return of Obasanjo

Pressure Builds for a Transition and a Fourth Veto Player Emerges (1990-1993) -- Abacha after the Failed Transition: From Two Veto Players to One (1993-1998) -- Obasanjo's Return: Four Veto Players for the Fourth Republic (1999-2003) -- Obasanjo's Second Term and Institutionalization under Three Veto Players (2003-2007) -- Conclusion -- 3 The Impact of Nigeria's Veto Players on Local and National Collective Goods -- National and Local Collective Goods as Measures of Government Performance -- Macroeconomic Performance -- Judicial Performance

The Aguiyi-Ironsi Regime: A Dictator's Ambitions Checked by a Regional Veto (1966) -- Yakubu Gowon Contends with a Military Council Veto (1966-1975) -- Mohammed/Obasanjo: Three Veto Players and an Unexpected Succession (1975-1979) -- Partisan and Presidential Veto Players during the Second Republic (1979-1981) -- Three Institutional Veto Players and the Second Republic's Swift Decline (1982-1983) -- A Veto from Buhari, a Veto from Idiagbon (1984-1985) -- A Triumvirate of Veto Players during Babangida's Early Years (1985-1990)

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