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Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria - The Failure of the First Republic (Hardcover)
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Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria - The Failure of the First Republic (Hardcover)
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The overthrow in January 1966 of Nigeria's First Republic erased
what had been regarded as perhaps the most promising prospect for
liberal democracy in post-colonial Africa. Marking the sweeping
failure of parliamentary institutions across a continent of new
nations, it accelerated the slide into a ghastly civil war. Class,
Ethnicity and Democracy is the first scholarly study to analyze the
evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria's First Republic and to
weigh this crucial experience against theories of the conditions
for stable democratic government. Rejecting explanations that focus
on political culture, political institutions, or ethnic competition
and conflict, Larry Diamond identifies the root of Nigeria's
democratic failure in the interrelationship between class, ethnic
and state structures. This led the emergent dominant class in each
region to mobilize and exploit ethnicity and to trample the
democratic process in furious competition for state control, since
that control was the primary means for accumulating wealth and
consolidating class dominance. Tracing the polarization of conflict
and the erosion of legitimacy through five major crises, Diamond
presents a new methodology for analyzing the persistence and
failure of democracies and points to the relationship between state
and society as a crucial determinant of the possibility for liberal
democracy.
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