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Dictators and democracy in African development : the political economy of good governance in Nigeria /
This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | African studies series.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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)