Transition Without End : : Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida / / ed. by Larry Diamond, Oyeleye Oyediran, Anthony Kirk-Greene.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Adamolekun, Ladipo,; Adekanye, J. ’Bayo,; Agbaje, Adigun,; Agbese, Dan,; Akindele, Rafiu A.,; Akinterinwa, Bola A.,; Anim, Etim,; Awa, Eme O.,; Bach, Daniel C.,; Badejo, Babafemi A.,; Biersteker, Thomas,; Dare, Tunji,; Diamond, Larry,; Ibrahim, Omar Farouk,; Kirk-Greene, Anthony,; Lewis, Peter M.,; Nwankwo, Clement,; Olukoshi, Adebayo O.,; Osaghae, Eghosa E.,; Oyediran, Oyeleye,; Suberu, Rotimi T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Diamond, Larry,; Kirk-Greene, Anthony,; Oyediran, Oyeleye ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 p.)

The authors examine the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993), chronicling the country's descent from the promise of reform and renewal to an unprecedented political and economic depression.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps of Nigeria -- Introduction: The Politics of Transition Without End -- Part 1 The Transition -- 1 The Remedial Imperatives of the Nigerian Constitution, 1922-1992 -- 2 The Military -- 3 The Political Bureau -- 4 The Constituent Assembly and the 1989 Constitution -- 5 Electoral Administration in the Early Transition -- 6 Mobilizing for a New Political Culture -- Part 2 Parties and Politics -- 7 Party Formation and Party Competition -- 8 The Reorganization of Local Government -- 9 The State Elections of 1991 -- 10 The National Assembly Elections of 1992 -- 11 The 1993 Presidential Election Imbroglio -- 12 Crisis and Collapse: June-November 1993 -- Part 3 Problems of Governance -- 13 The Rise and Fall of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria -- 14 Indigeneity, Ethnicity, and Federalism -- 15 The Judicial System and Human Rights -- 16 Transforming the Civil Service -- Part 4 Civil Society -- 17 Associational Life -- 18 Religion and Politics: A View from the South -- 19 Religion and Politics: A View from the North -- 20 The Press -- Part 5 Conclusion -- 21 Postscript and Postmortem -- Appendix 1 Chronology: 31 December 1983- 17 November 1993 -- Appendix 2 Acronyms -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book