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The Nigerian State and the Quest for a Stable Polity

The conditions and causes of political stability have been debated from different ideological and theoretical perspectives. There is no agreement on its causes. Moreover, there is no clear conceptualization of what stability or instability actually is. Thus, while Claude Ake and D. Sanders focus on patterns of behavior either in terms of regularity and behavior' or of its normality2 and hence seek nonethnocentric definition of stability, Dowding and Kimber see stability as dichotomous. For them, and unlike Ake, there is no need to measure degree of stability or instability. As they put it, a s…