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By Kalu N. Kalu
This booklet exhibits how particular old occasions and societal forces inside Nigeria go beyond the alternatives its political leaders have made to steer the process the state's political improvement. Kalu N. Kalu describes numerous components that experience contributed to the demanding situations dealing with state-building and political associations in Nigeria. leader between them are the character of curiosity aggregation, the dynamics of clash, and the styles of kingdom intervention in issues facing secularism, distributive politics, economic system, defense, and autonomy.Kalu succeeds in developing a extra natural idea of political improvement in Nigeria through making a version in line with rentier politics that captures the severe courting among kingdom strength and economic system. through doing so, he is going past present scholarship approximately Nigeria and demonstrates the necessity for a restructuring of its associations, providing perception into an everlasting narrative that maintains to form Nigerian politics.
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As Claude Ake points out,7 “when we use phrases such as the ‘state in Africa,’ we immediately give it the content of our own historical experience. Having named it and given it this content, we feel we have already settled the question of what it is, beforehand. ” In essence, control of state power occurs within a tripartite arrangement of indigenous political elites, entrepreneurial capital (the contractor class), and the military aristocracy. In the Nigerian case as well as in many others, the state has become private property encapsulated and legitimized within the public sphere.
But the underlying implication of political economy as a model of development arises from a primary belief among economists, especially among methodological individualists, who view economics as a universal science of decisionmaking under conditions of constraint, scarcity, and choice. ”50 One therefore doubts whether the issue of chronic low economic performance among developing countries can be explained solely by reference to the economic paradigm in use at any particular point in time. An incentive offered by the liberal economic model is that trade and markets can be made to become the driving force for economic development; hence societies that are economically developed are more likely to have politically stable states.