{"product_id":"class-ethnicity-and-democracy-in-nigeria-the-failure-of-the-first-republic-hardcover","title":"Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Diamond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClass, Ethnicity and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is the first scholarly study to analyze the evolution, decay, and failure of Nigeria's First Republic and to weigh this crucial experience against theories of the conditions for stable democratic government. Rejecting explanations that focus on political culture, political institutions, or ethnic competition and conflict, Larry Diamond identifies the root of Nigeria's democratic failure in the interrelationship between class, ethnic and state structures. This led the emergent dominant class in each region to mobilize and exploit ethnicity and to trample the democratic process in furious competition for state control, since that control was the primary means for accumulating wealth and consolidating class dominance.\u003cbr\u003eTracing the polarization of conflict and the erosion of legitimacy through five major crises, Diamond presents a new methodology for analyzing the persistence and failure of democracies and points to the relationship between state and society as a crucial determinant of the possibility for liberal democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Diamond is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. He was previously Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. He has published numerous articles on Nigerian politics and development in various learned journals, is the author of \u003ci\u003eNigeria in Search of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e and editor (with Juan Linz and Seymour Marin Lipset) of the four-volume study \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in Developing Countries\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45776340123845,"sku":"9780815624226","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/pqlkoyPc789780815624226.webp?v=1770548901","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/class-ethnicity-and-democracy-in-nigeria-the-failure-of-the-first-republic-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}