State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism

This book 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. Chief among them are the nature of interest aggregation, the dynamics of conflict, and the patterns of state intervention in matters dealing with secularism, distributive politics, economy, security, and autonomy. Kalu succeeds in constructing a more organic concept of political development in Nigeria by creating a model based on rentier politics that captures the critical relationship between state power and economy. By doing so, he goes beyond current scholarship about Nigeria and demonstrates the need for a restructuring of its institutions, offering insight into an enduring narrative that continues to shape Nigerian politics.

Auteur
Kalu N. Kalu is associate professor of political science at Auburn UniversityDMontgomery. He is coeditor (with Andrew and Nada Kakabadse, of Cranfield University and the University of Northampton, UK, respectively) of Citizenship: A Reality Far From Ideal (Palgrave-Macmillan Publishers, forthcoming 2009).

Contenu
Chapter 1 Contents
Chapter 2 Figures
Chapter 3 Tables
Chapter 4 Acronyms
Chapter 5 Political Map of Nigeria
Chapter 6 Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 7 1. Introduction: A Prolegomenon on State and Governance
Chapter 8 2. Analytical Frameworks of State Formation
Chapter 9 3. History and Evolutionary Schisms
Chapter 10 4. Restless Federalism: Critical Arguments on Conflict and Governance
Chapter 11 5. The Geopolitics of Religion: Conflated Origins of Ethnic Crisis
Chapter 12 6. The Praetorian Orthodoxy: Pathways to Civic Soldiering
Chapter 13 7. Rentier Politics: The Confluence of Power and Economics
Chapter 14 8. The Garrison State: Bridging Civil-Military Transitions
Chapter 15 9. Elections and Electioneering: On the Democratic Deficit
Chapter 16 10. The Niger Delta: A Platform Under Duress
Chapter 17 11. Constitutionalism and Political Development
Chapter 18 12. Embedding African Democracy and Development: The Imperative of Institutional Capital
Chapter 19 Appendix A: Roll Call and Votes for the 2007 Presidential Elections
Chapter 20 Appendix B: Note from Robert A. Dahl