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Ethnic, linguistic, and regional identities deepen, frustrating democratic constitutional ideals. The study reviews theories of democracy, ethnicity, and clientelism, and evaluates the political roles of the military and higher civil service in the Second Republic.","Richard A.Joseph  \nDemocracy and  \nprebendal politicsin Nigeria  \nTheriseandfallof the Second Republic  \nThe Nigerian Federation has experienced cyclesof political renewal and collapse.This bookexamines the relationship between the patternof party formation and a mode of social,political and economic behavior Richard Josephhas termed ‘prebendalism'.He demonstratesthe centrality in the Nigerian polity of thestruggle to control and exploit public office andargues that state power is usually viewed byNigerians as an array of prebends,theappropriation of which provides access to thestate treasury and to control over the issuing ofremunerative licences and contracts.Inaddition,the abiding desire for a democraticpolitical system is frustrated by the deepeningof ethnic,linguistic and regional identities.Byexploring the ways in which individuals at allsocial levels contribute to the maintenance ofthese practices,the book provides an analysisof the impediments to constitutional democracythat is relevant to the study of other ThirdWorld nations.Theories of democracy,ethnicity and clientelism are reviewed in thelight of Nigerian experience.Also examined arethe political roles of the military and the highercivil service,the vast expansion of the state'sinvolvement in the economy during the years ofbuoyant revenues from petroleum export,thecontrasting nature and social bases of thepolitical parties of the Second Republic,andthe conduct of the general elections of 1979 and1983.  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2019 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/democracyprebend0000jose  \n1  \n/  \n# DEMOCRACY AND PREBENDALPOLITICS IN NIGERIA\n\nAFRICAN STUDIES SERIES 56  \nGENERAL EDITOR  \nJ.M.Lonsdale,Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge  \n# ADVISORY EDITORS\n\nJ.D.Y.Peel,Charles Booth Professor of Sociology,University of LiverpoolJohn Sender,Faculty of Economics and Fellow of Wolfson College,Cambridge  \nPublished in collaboration withTHE AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE,CAMBRIDGE  \nOTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES  \n6 Labour in the South African Gold Mines,1911-1969 Francis Wilson  \n14 Culture,Tradition and Society in the West African Novel Emmanuel Obiechina18 Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-century Africa B.G.Martin  \n20 Liberia and Sierra Leone:An Essay in Comparative Politics Christopher Clapham23 West African States:Failure and Promise:A Study in Comparative Politics John Dunn24 Afrikaners of the Kalahari:White Minority in a Black State Margo and Martin Russell25 A Modern History of Tanganyika John Iliffe  \n26 A History of African Christianity 1950-1975 Adrian Hastings  \n28 The Hidden Hippopotamus:Reappraisal in African History:The Early Colonial Experiencein Western Zambia Gwyn Prins  \n29 Families Divided:The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho Colin Murray  \n30 Slavery,Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey 1640-1960 Patrick Manning31 Kings,Commoners and Concessionaires:The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-century Swazi State Philip Bonner  \n32 Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism:The Case of Sayyid Muhammad AbdilleHasan Said S.Samatar  \n33 The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860-1930:Production,Labour,Migrancy and Chiefsin Rural South Africa William Beinart  \n34 Volkskapitalisme:Class,Capital and Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism1934-1948 Dan O'Meara  \n35 The Settler Economies:Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia1900-1963 Paul Mosley  \n36 Transformations in Slavery:A History of Slavery in Africa Paul E.Lovejoy37 Amilcar Cabral:Revolutionary Leadership and People's War Patrick Chabal38 Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa Robert H.Bates  \n39 IJjeshas and Nigerians:The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom,1890-1970s J.D.Y.Peel40 Black People and the South African War 1899-1902 Peter Warwick41 A History of Niger 1850-1960 Finn Fuglestad  \n42 Industrialisation and Trade Union Organisation in South Africa 1924-55 Jon Lewis43 The Rising of th","cbCaigq9y78y2GYS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigq9y78y2GYS","pdf",11494491,4,1,264,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Prebendalism and political behavior\n## Parties, ethnicity, and clientelism\n## Military and higher civil service\n## State expansion and petroleum revenues\n## Second Republic parties and social bases\n## General elections of 1979 and 1983","[{\"question\":\"What does “prebendalism” explain in Nigeria’s political system?\",\"answer\":\"It describes a mode of social, political, and economic behavior in which public office is treated as a set of prebends. 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