WP86: Corruption, institutional discredit, and exclusion of the poor: A poverty trap
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
The vast majority of empirical studies focus mainly on the indirect effects of corruption on poverty using cross-section analyses of macroeconomic aggregates (growth, investment, public...
WP84: Quality of elections, satisfaction with democracy, and political trust in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Elections are a means for realising some of the core values of democracy, especially participation of the citizenry, which helps to ensure quality governance and accountability on the part of...
WP83: Ethnicity as a political cleavage
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This paper examines the significance of ethnicity as a political cleavage across African nations over time. While scholars have studied the influence of ethnicity in structuring party politics in...
WP81: Corruption and institutional trust in Africa: Implications for democratic development
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This paper addresses the corruption-trust nexus with survey data and statistical methods. Data are drawn from the Afrobarometer, a comparative series of national public attitude surveys on...
WP80: Political rights versus public goods: Uncovering the determinants of satisfaction
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
In democracies there is a trade-off between efficiency in the provision of public goods and the extent of political representation. Our paper shows how this trade-off plays out in translating...
WP79: Political transition, corruption, and income inequality in third wave democracies
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
The paper examines the effect of democratization on income inequality in third-wave democracies. Using data from the World Income Inequality Database, this paper will show that income inequality...
WP76: Optimism and poverty in Africa: Adaptation or a means to survival?
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Recent research finds that higher levels of optimism and happiness are associated with other positive traits and behaviors, such as productivity in the labor market, better health, and support for...
WP75: Testing mechanisms of influence: Education and support for democracy in sub-Saharan Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Discussions of the social factors conducive to the emergence and survival of liberal democratic regimes in developing societies have generally emphasized modernization as a positive influence and...
WP74: Legitimating beliefs: Sources and indicators
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This paper examines the conditions that promote popular legitimating beliefs that provide support for governments that are attempting to serve their entire populations competently and in a manner...
WP73: The micro-dynamics of welfare state retrenchment and the implications for citizenship in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
In Africa, neoliberal reform has represented a major retrenchment in the public provision of health and education services. In terms of politics, this free or highly subsidized public provision of...
WP71: A vicious circle of corruption and mistrust in institutions in sub-Saharan Africa: A micro-level analysis
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This paper evaluates the extent to which expressive voting can explain Malawi’s regional census. Specifically, are Malawians who hold regional identities more likely to be regional partisans...
WP69: Corruption and the inequality trap in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
In this paper I offer an argument I call the “inequality trap”–how high inequality leads to low trust in out-groups and then to high levels of corruption–and back to higher levels of...
WP68: Identity, institutions and democracy in Nigeria
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Ethnicity is a central theme in the analysis of Nigerian politics. Conventional approaches to ethnic politics in Nigeria often assume the existence of stable identities and consistent group...
WP65: Are you being served? Popular satisfaction with health and education services in Africa
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This article explores the determinants of public satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with health and education services in Africa. Among prospective explanations, we consider the users’ poverty,...
BP46: Performance and legitimacy in Nigeria's new democracy
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No. 46
WP64: Crime and support for democracy: Revisiting modernization theory
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
We revisit the literature on modernization theory and note that the theory posits that both increases in wealth and increases in crime rates accompany modernization. This fact is often ignored by...
WP63: Voters but not yet citizens: The weak demand for vertical acountability in Africa's unclaimed democracies
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Transitions to competitive, multiparty politics in African countries during the 1990s were jubilantly welcomed, both on the continent and internationally. Today, Africans enjoy unprecedented...
WP61: Citizens and the State in Africa: New results from Afrobarometer Round 3
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
This compendium reports on the findings from new questions and topic areas explored in Round 3 of the Afrobarometer, involving public attitude surveys conducted in 18 countries from 2005-2006. The...
WP60: Where is Africa going? Views from below: A compendium of trends in public opinion in 12 African countries, 1999-2006
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Where is Africa going? This compendium summarizes both continental trends and divergent country directions. It is based on three rounds of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys, 1999-2006. Among...
Nigeria Round 3 summary of results
afrobarometer publications (select-countries=nigeria)
Summary of results for the Afrobarometer Round 3 survey in Nigeria in 2005
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