1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452661803321

Titolo

Nigeria's democratic experience in the fourth republic since 1999 [[electronic resource]] : policies and politics.  / / edited by A. Sat Obiyan and Kunle Amuwo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : University Press of America, 2012

ISBN

1-283-84816-3

0-7618-5955-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (529 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ObiyanA. Sat

AmuwoKunle

Disciplina

966.9053

Soggetti

Democracy - Nigeria

Electronic books.

Nigeria Politics and government 1993-2007

Nigeria Politics and government 2007

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Introduction; Section 1. INTRA AND INTER GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS; Ch01. Intra-Executive Conflict in Nigeria's Presidential System (1999-2007); Ch02. Executive-Legislature Relationship; Ch03. Local Government in Federal-State-Local Relations, 1999-2006; Ch04. The Principles and Practice of Separation of Power in Nigeria; Ch05. Emergency Powers, Political Instability, and the Nigerian Constitution; Ch06. The Federal State in Obasanjo's Nigeria; Section 2. ELECTIONS AND ELECTORAL PROCESSES; Ch07. Godfatherism and the Nigerian Polity

Ch08. Party System and Political Conflicts in Nigeria's Fourth RepublicCh09. The Independent National Electoral Commission and the Challenges of Election Management; Ch10. Electoral Conflicts, the Judiciary, and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria; Ch11. Elections in Nigeria; Section 3. OIL POLITICS, REVENUE ALLOCATION, ETHNIC RELATIONS, AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE; Ch12. The Politics of Revenue Allocation in Nigeria; Ch13. Revenue Determination and Political Conflict in a Federal State; Ch14. Ethnic Nationalism and the Nigerian



Democratic Experience in the Fourth Republic

Ch15. Niger Delta Crisis and Nigerian DemocracySection 4. EDUCATIONAL REFORMS, RELIGION, POPULATION, AND GENDER ISSUES; Ch16. Nigerian Women, Ten Years after Beijing; Ch17. The Politics of Census in Nigeria; Ch18. The Obasanjo Regime's Educational Reforms and National Development; Ch19. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; Section 5. THE LEADERSHIP QUESTION, CORRUPTION, AND ACCOUNTABILITY; Ch20. Personality, Corruption, and the Leadership Question in Nigeria; Ch21. Corruption and Anti-Corruption Strategies; Ch22. Local Government and the Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in

Section 6. POVERTY ERADICATION AND ECONOMIC REFORMCh23. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Nigeria's Fourth Republic; Ch24. An Evaluation of the Effects of the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (Needs)on Poverty Reduction in Nigeria; Ch25. An Appraisal of the Federal Government's Reform Policy of Re-engineering the Nigerian InsuranceIndustry towards Higher Productivity; Ch26. The Politics of Oil Deregulation; Ch27. The New Pension Reform; Ch28. Nigeria's 2004 Pension Reform Act; Section 7. THE LEGISLATURE, JUDICIARY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE NIGERIAN STATE

Ch29. The Government, Human Rights, and the Rule of LawCh30. The Evolutionary Travails of the Nigerian State and Political System, 1914-1999

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses various issues that have arisen in the practice of democracy in Nigeria since 1999, focusing on the Obasanjo years (1999-2007). Nigeria's return to democratic rule has been marked by many developments and challenges, discussed here with incisive analysis.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788487003321

Titolo

Words and their stories [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the language of the Chinese Revolution / / edited by Ban Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-03956-7

9786613039569

90-04-18861-4

90-04-18860-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section four, China, , 0169-9520 ; ; v. 27 = Handbuch der orientalistik

Altri autori (Persone)

WangBan <1957->

Disciplina

951.04/2

951.042

Soggetti

Revolutions - China - History - 20th century

Revolutionaries - China - Language

Political culture - China - History - 20th century

Literature and revolutions - China - History - 20th century

Politics and literature - China - History - 20th century

Discourse analysis - Political aspects - China

China Politics and government 1949-1976 Terminology

China Politics and government 1912-1949 Terminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / B. Wang -- Understanding The Chinese Revolution Through Words: An Introduction / Ban Wang -- 1. Revolution: From Literary Revolution To Revolutionary Literature / Jianhua Chen -- 2. The Long March / Enhua Zhang -- 3. Rectification: Party Discipline, Intellectual Remolding, And The Formation Of A Political Community / Kirk A. Denton -- 4. Worker-Peasant-Soldier Literature / Xiaomei Chen -- 5. Steel Is Made Through Persistent Tempering / Xinmin Liu -- 6. Socialist Realism / Ban Wang -- 7. Political Lyric / Xin Ning -- 8. Writing The Actual / Charles A. Laughlin -- 9. Nowhere In The World Does There Exist Love Or Hatred Without



Reason / Haiyan Lee -- 10. Promote Physical Culture And Sport, Improve The People’s Constitution / Xiaoning Lu -- 11. Typical People In Typical Circumstances / Richard King -- 12. Use The Past To Serve The Present; The Foreign To Serve China / Tina Mai Chen -- 13. Women Can Hold Up Half The Sky / Xueping Zhong -- 14. Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let A Hundred Schools Of Thought Contend / Richard Kraus -- 15. They Love Battle Array, Not Silks And Satins / Tina Mai Chen -- 16. The Three Prominences / Yizhong Gu -- 17. Revolutionary Narrative In The Seventeen Years Period / Guo Bingru -- Bibliography / B. Wang -- Index / B. Wang.

Sommario/riassunto

As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still alive and relevant. The slogan “Farewell to Revolution” that obscures the revolutionary language is premature. In spite of dislocations and ruptures in the revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. Recovery of the vital uses of key revolutionary words proffers critical alternatives in which contemporary capitalist myths can be contested.