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Contesting the Nigerian State : civil society and the contradictions of self-organization

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	civil society and the contradictions of self-organization
[NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility:	OkomeMojubaolu Olufunke,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Basingstoke
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2013
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (p. cm.)
[NT 47266] Subject:	State-local relations - Nigeria. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Community development - Nigeria. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Nigeria - Politics and government - 21st century. -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137324535
[NT 47265] Notes:	Description based on print version record
[NT 51398] Summary:	This book addresses the meanings and implications of self-organization and state society relations in contemporary Nigerian politics. The conventional wisdom in public choice theory is that self-organization could generate collective action problems, via the tragedy of the commons, or the prisoner's dilemma, or a condition akin to Hobbes' state of nature, where selfish interests produce social conflict rather than cooperation. In the absence or unwillingness of the state to provide such services, entire communities in Nigeria have had to band together to repair roads, build health centers, repair broken transformers owned by the public utilities company, all from levies. Consideration of post-authoritarian state-civil society relations in Nigeria began in a situation where the state was deeply embroiled in a morass of economic and political crises, further complicating these relations, and lending urgency to questions about state capacity, as well as the nature of the relationship between state and civil society, and their implication for the social, economic and political health and well being of the democratizing polity and its citizens.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9781137324535electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	1137324538electronic bk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	1. Contesting Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization - Introduction, Concepts, and Questions; Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome 2. Civil Society and the Challenges of Development and Nation Building in the Post Colonial African State; Ademola Araoye 3. State Failure and the Contradictions of the Public Sphere, 1995-2005; Ayo Olukotun 4. Mobilizing For Change: The Press and the Struggle for Citizenship in Democratic Nigeria; Wale Adebanwi 5. Gendered States: Women's Civil Society Activism in Nigerian Politics; Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome 6. Feminist Civil Society Organizations and Democratization in Nigeria; Funmi Soetan 7. Women's Associational Life within Traditional Institutions in Yoruba States; Fatai A. Olasupo 8. Sexual Struggles and Democracy Dividends; Ebenezer Obadare 9. Politics in a Sub-Formal Economic Setting: Workplace Investment Co-Operatives in Southwestern Nigeria, C.1986-2011; Olufemi A. Akinola.

Contesting the Nigerian State : civil society and the contradictions of self-organization
Contesting the Nigerian State : civil society and the contradictions of self-organization / edited by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 1 online resource (p. cm.).
1. Contesting Nigerian State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization - Introduction, Concepts, and Questions; Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN 9781137324535ISBN 1137324538
State-local relationsCommunity development -- Nigeria. -- Nigeria.

Okome, Mojubaolu Olufunke

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