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Integrationist and accommodationist measures in Nigeria’s constitutional engineering: Successes and failures

Abstract Integration and accommodation have emerged as the two most prominent approaches to constitutional engineering in divided societies. The first seeks a homogeneous public sphere and a differentiated nonpublic domain, drawing its theoretical matrix from conventional liberalism animated by the ideas of John Rawls and Brian Barry. The latter envisages a differentiated public sphere consistent with the identity cleavages in the nonpublic sphere and is driven by theories ranging from liberal multiculturalism to consociationalism. The institutional repertoires of these two approaches function…