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“Kalu N. Kalu’s State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism boldly challenges the established wisdom that ethnicity drives conflict and holds back Nigeria, pushing us instead to look at what he sees as the structural defects in the Nigerian federation.This timely book offers an extensive survey of the literatures on Kalu N. Kalu Nigerian history, political economy, democracy, political culture, and ethno-religious conflicts to give us multiple perspectives on the multifaceted problems preventing
progress in Nigerian political development.Through this, Kalu gives readers much to State Power, Autarchy, and Political
consider on what the proper crafting of political institutions would entail if democracy Conquest in Nigerian Federalism is to survive in Nigeria, with implications for Africa writ large. Constitutional scholars will find Kalu’s line-by-line commentary on the Nigerian Constitution of particular interest.” —Darren Kew, assistant professor, University of Massachusetts–Boston
State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism shows how specific historical events and societal forces within Nigeria transcend the choices its political State Power, Autarchy, leaders have made to influence the course of the state’s political development. Kalu N. Kalu describes a variety of factors that have contributed to the challenges facing state-building and political institutions in Nigeria. Chief among them are the nature of interest aggregation, the dynamics of conflict, and the patterns of state intervention in matters dealing with secularism, distributive politics, economy, security, and autonomy. and Political Conquest Of critical importance is a penetrating analysis of how state power could become too pervasive, and how emergent institutional designs can work against the very processes necessary for the construction of an enduring political ethos. in Nigerian Federalism Kalu succeeds in constructing a more organic conception of political development of Nigeria by creating a model based on rentier politics that captures the critical rela- tionship between state power and economy. By doing so, he goes beyond current scholarship about Nigeria and demonstrates the need for a restructuring of its insti- tutions, offering insight into an enduring narrative that continues to shape Nigerian politics.
Kalu N. Kalu is associate professor of political science at Auburn University–Montgomery.
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State Power, Autarchy, and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism
Kalu N. Kalu
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kalu, Kalu Ndukwe. State power, autarchy, and political conquest in Nigerian federalism / Kalu N. Kalu. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1955-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7391-1955-9 (cloth : alk. paper) eISBN-13: 978-0-7391-2992-0 eISBN-10: 0-7391-2992-9 1. Federal government—Nigeria. 2. Nigeria—Politics and government. I. Title. JQ3086.S8K35 2008 320.4669'049—dc22 2008009970
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