Dictators and democracy in African development : the political economy of good governance in Nigeria / A. Carl LeVan.
Material type: TextSeries: African studies seriesPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 282 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781139962872
- 1139962876
- 9781316166857
- 1316166856
- 9781322521756
- 1322521751
- Nigeria -- Politics and government
- Dictatorship -- Nigeria
- Democracy -- Nigeria
- Economic development -- Political aspects -- Nigeria
- Nigeria -- Economic conditions
- Nigeria -- Politique et gouvernement
- Dictature -- Nigeria
- Développement économique -- Aspect politique -- Nigeria
- Nigeria -- Conditions économiques
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Economic development -- Political aspects
- Economic history
- Politics and government
- Nigeria
- Agency-Theorie
- Demokratie
- Diktatur
- Machtmissbrauch
- Nigeria
- 320.9669 23
- JQ3090 .L48 2014eb
- MI 31030
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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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