Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic

by Larry Diamond

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0815624220

ISBN13:9780815624226

Release Date:August 1988

Publisher:Syracuse University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Elections & Political Process History Politics & Government

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