Title: State power, autarchy, and political conquest in Nigerian federalism /
Authors: Kalu, Kalu Ndukwe
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Federal government Nigeria; Nigeria Politics and government.
Abstract: "State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism shows how specific historical events and societal forces within Nigeria transcend the choices its political leaders have made to influence the course of the state's political development. Kalu N. Kalu describes a variety of factors that have contributed to the challenges facing state-building and political institutions in Nigeria."--Jacket.
Contents: Analytical frameworks of state formation -- History and evolutionary schisms -- Restless federalism : critical arguments on conflict and governance -- The geopolitics of religion : conflated origins of ethnic crsis -- The praetorian orthodoxy : pathways to civic soldiering -- Rentier politics : the confluence of power and economics -- The garrison state : bridging civil-military transitions -- Elections and electioneering : on the democratic deficit -- The Niger Delta : a platform under duress -- Constitutionalism and political development -- Embedding african democracy and development : the imperative of institutional capital.