Nigeria's 2015 General Elections: Continuity and Change in Electoral Democracy

Ladi Hamalai,Samuel Egwu,J. Shola Omotola

Nigeria's 2015 General Elections: Continuity and Change in Electoral Democracy
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Country
Switzerland
Published
1 August 2018
Pages
312
ISBN
9783319853161

Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections: Continuity and Change in Electoral Democracy

Ladi Hamalai,Samuel Egwu,J. Shola Omotola

This book examines the significance of the 2015 elections in consolidating Nigeria’s democracy, in the context of the difficulty of routinizing democracy since the attainment of nationhood in 1960 and the return to civil rule in May 1999, in particular. It offers a complete analysis of Nigeria’s electoral process, outlining how the dynamics of limited changes in the constitutional, institutional, attitudinal and behavioural frameworks that underpin electoral competition played out in the elections. The authors further examine the conduct and outcome of the 2015 elections against the background of the pattern of electoralism that had been established since the return to democracy in 1999. In doing so, they draw attention to the dialectics of continuity and change that have been thrown up by the elections and how the lessons learned can be used to build a more enduring democratic system. The book will be of interest to students and academics of political science, development studies, democratisation and election studies, and African government and politics.

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