Democracy and prebendal politics in Nigeria : the rise and fall of the Second Republic
Richard A. Joseph (Author)
This title examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the state treasury and to control over remunerative licenses and contracts
Print Book, English, 2014
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014