Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-1955-6 • Hardback • June 2008 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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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).
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
Kalu is a prolific author with wide-ranging interests....Recommended.
— CHOICE, January 2009
Kalu N. Kalu's State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism boldly challenges the established wisdom that ethnicity drives conflict and holds back Nigeria, pushing us instead to look at what he sees as the structural defects in the Nigerian federation, for which he prescribes a consociational remedy. This timely book offers an extensive survey of the literatures on Nigerian history, political economy, democracy, political culture, and ethno-religious conflicts to give us multiple perspectives on the multifaceted problems preventing progress in Nigerian political development. Through this, he gives readers much to consider on what the proper crafting of political institutions would entail if democracy is to survive in Nigeria, with implications for Africa writ large. Constitutional scholars will find Kalu's line-by-line commentary on the Nigerian Constitution of particular interest.
— Darren Kew, associate professor, University of Massachusetts-Boston