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Assessment of the Political Economy of Nigeria: Democratic Sustainability and Challenges for Development

Nigeria's political economy has long been shaped by dependence on oil rents, the weak institutionalisation of political parties, endemic corruption, and recurrent insecurity, all of which combine to constrain the country's democratic sustainability and developmental prospects. This paper undertakes a conceptual and secondary-data assessment of Nigeria's political economy since the return to civilian rule in 1999, examining how rentier dynamics and prebendal politics interact with formal democratic institutions to produce a persistently fragile democratic order. Drawing on governance indices (T…