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1 online resource (xx, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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African studies |
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African studies series.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
| Summary |
This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-274) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Dictatorship -- Nigeria
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Democracy -- Nigeria
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Economic development -- Political aspects -- Nigeria
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Democracy
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Dictatorship
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Economic development -- Political aspects
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Agency-Theorie
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Demokratie
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Diktatur
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Machtmissbrauch
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| SUBJECT |
Nigeria -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091880
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Nigeria -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091858
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| Subject |
Nigeria
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Nigeria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139962872 |
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1139962876 |
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9781316166857 |
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1316166856 |
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9781322521756 |
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1322521751 |
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