Counting heads: a theory of voter and elite behavior in patronage democracies
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The observation that patronage politics and expectations of ethnic favoritism go together is supported by a well-documented consensus among scholars of patronage democracies. According to Kearney, a student of Sri Lanka: “A common expectation seems to be that a person holding a p…
Nigeria: Elections and Continuing Challenges
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SUSAN J. RASMUSSEN. Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 234. $26.00
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The Tuareg are a loose alliance of clans and tribes inhabiting a vast region in the Central Sahara that encompasses Southern Algeria, southwestern Libya, most of Niger, eastern Mali, northern Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Still speaking the Berber of their ancient ancestors, the Tuar…
NIGERIA: Vice President Barred
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Nigeria
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Nigeria: Current Issues
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Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa with an estimated 132 million people, has faced intermittent political turmoil and economic crisis since gaining independence in October 1960. Nigerian political life has been scarred by conflict along both ethnic and geographic lines a…
Abd al-Karim Qasim and the kurds of Iraq: Centralization, resistance and revolt, 1958–63
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Like the political elites of India, Indonesia, and Nigeria, postcolonial Middle Eastern rulers have struggled to strengthen their states while accommodating plural societies. This has been particul...
ONG humanitaires et politiques migratoires des États : une analyse financière et stratégique
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Peace enforcement through sub-regional organisations: the Economic Community of West African States and Operation Liberty in Liberia
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The activities of African international organisations evolved dramatically in the 1990s. A proliferation of internal wars coupled with the relative disengagement of the developed world from Africa in the wake of the Cold War thrust the continent's sub-regional organisations into…
Tracing police accountability in theory and practice
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Police around the world are becoming more accountable for their use of force against civilians. Scholars have contributed to this movement both by building the field conceptually and by working in partnership with officials to construct specific accountability mechanisms. In both…
Beyond State Failure and Collapse: Making the State Relevant in Africa
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Part 1 Background Chapter 2 Introduction: The Terminally Ill Berlinist State Chapter 3 Making the State Relevant: Theoretical Models Chapter 4 A Political Economy of the African State Part 5 Case Studies Chapter 6 Making the State Relevant in Burundi Chapter 7 Making the State Re…
Nigeria: Profiles of Main Candidates
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The Good Society: An Introduction to Comparative Politics
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Introduction. Chapter 1. Good Societies Chapter 2. Political Institutions and the Good Society Chapter 3. States, Markets, and the Good Society Chapter 4. Rich Democracies Chapter 5. Regimes in Rich Democracies Chapter 6. Case Studies of Sweden, the United States, and Germany Cha…
Territoriality and the Discourse of Ethnic Groups’ Clashes
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Conflictual relations at the level of political and civil society are usually replicated, represented and re-presented in the media. Where such relations concern territoriality, the media through a discursive strategy, re-fold space into—or re-bind space with—power, producing a t…
The utilization of the African system within South Africa
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Introduction In line with the conceptual and methodological approach that was adopted in the last chapter, the same kinds of issues that were raised in that context with regard to the impact of the African system within Nigeria also animate the discussion here. As the nature of t…
Countries along the cycle: case studies
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In this chapter the evolutionary model developed in chapter 3 and its ensuing claims are applied to specific countries and language varieties. For obvious reasons a selection of case studies to focus on was necessary. This includes the most important PCEs and those which are part…
What Happened to Tocqueville’s America?
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James Q. Whitman What Happened to Tocqueville's America? T H E R E W AS A T IM E W H E N A M E R IC A N C R IM IN A L P U N IS H M E N T W AS A m odel for the civilized world. That time, which now seems very long ago, was the early nineteenth centuiy. "The fame of the great advan…
Criminals and Insurgents: The Role of Ethnicity in State Responses to Internal Resource Competitors
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A government facing an ethnicity based insurgency competing with it for natural resources faces different threats based upon the level of ethnic homogeneity of the insurgent elements. Where a mono-ethnic insurgent threat develops, the government faces a potential separatist movem…
Civil Militia: Africa's Intractable Security Menace?David J. Francis
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Reviewed by: Civil Militia: Africa's Intractable Security Menace? John W. Harbeson David J. Francis , ed. 2005. Civil Militia: Africa's Intractable Security Menace?Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 300 pp. $99.95 (cloth). Civil Militia draws in the reader because its dozen contributing a…
Constitutional Development and Inter-Group Relations in Nigeria: The Unending Dilemma
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Awolowo's conceptualization of Nigeria as a mere geographical contraction occasioned to serve the interest of our erstwhile British colonialists and the postcolonial state collaborators clearly underscores her existentiality and the ensuing social and inter-group relations that h…
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