Rotimi T Suberu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 171980 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rotimi T Suberu |
| NOMBRES | Rotimi T |
| APELLIDO | Suberu |
| FIRMA | SUBERU R T |
| AFILIACIONES | Bennington College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations
What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/ centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politicoinstitutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan from the establishment of their respective federal orders to 2020. It shows that de/centralization varies greatly across its different dimensions as …
Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960–1966
Contemporary celebrations of Nigeria’s First Republic as a moment of benign and truly decentralized federalism belie the federal system’s fraught origins, profound contradictions, and violent disintegration. Although it creatively fostered regional self-rule while encouraging collegiate parliamentary coalitions at the center, federalism in the First Republic embodied fundamental flaws. The British colonial government’s promotion of a federation o…
De/centralization in Nigeria, 1954–2020
Prevailing analyses highlight Nigeria’s transformation by ‘soldiers and oil’ from a decentralized to a hyper-centralized federation. Nuancing rather than repudiating such analyses, this systematic measurement of de/centralization in Nigeria over the 1954–2020 period demonstrates that centralization was partly rooted in the federation’s unitary colonial foundations and, thus, predated the advent of military autocracy. Furthermore, the country’s un…
Strategies for Advancing Anticorruption Reform in Nigeria
A vast literature documenting the structural embeddedness, grotesque scale, and devastating consequences of political corruption in Nigeria threatens to overshadow the tenacity of the country's anti-corruption “wars,” the recent gains in controlling electoral corruption, the development of a robust national discourse about improving the effectiveness of anticorruption reform, and the crystallization of potentially viable legislative and constitut…
Managing Constitutional Change in the Nigerian Federation
Since making the transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria has witnessed intensive, but largely unfulfilled, pressures for comprehensive federal constitutional change. This article analyzes the multiple ethno-political drivers and institutional themes of Nigeria’s constitutional struggles, the conflicting approaches to federal reform by governmental, civic, and ethno-regional groups, and potential pathways to a more effective gov…
A nation betrayed
A nation betrayed: Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957, by Michael Vickers, Trenton and Asmara, Africa World Press, Inc., 2010, xxi + 346 pp., (paperback) ISBN 1-59221-733-8, (hardback) I
The Nigerian federal system
The transformation and centralisation of the Nigerian federation by ‘soldiers and oil’ has produced contentious and contradictory outcomes. Many influential commentators describe the current centralised system of federalism as a veritable source of, rather than a credible solvent for, the country's multifaceted crises of unity, democracy, and development. A more balanced perspective would distinguish between the system's remarkable achievements i…
Religion and institutions
Conflicts over the status of Sharia Islamic law have dominated constitutional politics and ethno‐religious relations in the Nigerian federation for decades. The adoption of stringent Sharia codes by 12 Muslim majority states in northern Nigeria, beginning with Zamfara in 1999, was particularly contentious, provoking broad concerns about the viability and survival of Nigeria's innovatively structured multi‐ethnic federal system. But Sharia impleme…
Federalism in Africa
Although it is often portrayed in global terms as a dysfunctional and failed state, oil-rich Nigeria in the comparative African context has been relatively successful in overcoming and containing the syndrome of state disintegration and large-scale internal disorder that has afflicted some of the continent's other large multiethnic states, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Nigeria's relative stability derives significantly fro…
Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999–2006
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Supreme Court and federalism in Nigeria
Since Nigeria's transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, the country's Supreme Court has risen from a position of relative political obscurity and institutional vulnerability into a prominent and independent adjudicator of inter-governmental disputes in this chronically conflicted federation. Examined here is the Court's arbitration, during President Olusegun Obasanjo's two civilian constitutional terms (1999-2007), of fifteen different…
Nigeria's Muddled Elections
The April 14 and 21 elections marked a momentous occasion—the first time one civilian government handed power to another. The elections were to be a milestone in Nigeria's history, which has been plagued by military rule, political instability, and poor governance. Instead of signaling a fresh hope for consolidation of democracy in the country, the elections were marred by flagrant fraud, allowing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to maintain i…
Ethnic Politics and Ethnic Conflict
ETHNIC POLITICS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT Michael Vickers. Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West State. Oxford: WorldView Publishing, 2001. 410 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. £49.95. Cloth. £24.95. Paper. Godfrey Mwakikagile. Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria. Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, 2001. 237 pp. Appendixes. Index. $59.00. Cloth. Rotimi T. Suberu. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nige…
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Can Nigeria's New Democracy Survive
The fragility of Nigeria's new democracy is rooted in the onerous burden of the preceding era of military misrule and the shallow nature of the May 1999 transition from autocracy to democracy
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
FEDERALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN NIGERIARotimi SuberuWashington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001, xxvi, 247pp, $14.95, ISBN 1-929223-28-5ETHNICITY AND SUB-NATIONALISM IN NIGERIAMichael VickersOxford: WorldView, 2000, xviii, 410pp, [Symbol Not Transcribed]49.95 cloth (ISBN 1-872142-43-5), [Symbol Not Transcribed]29.95 paper (ISBN 1-872142-44-3)These ambitious volumes address the development of Nigerian federalism and the complex i…
Transition Without End
The authors examine the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993), chronicling the country's descent from the promise of reform and renewal to an unprecedented political and economic depression
Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria
Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria explores and analyses the underlying sources and salient features of recent ethnic minority conflicts in Nigeria, the largely controversial policies by which the Nigerian state has sought to contain these conflicts, and the prospects and preconditions for a more stable and equitable system of federal governance in the country. Through an insightful examination of two most recent minority conflic…
Nigeria
Nigeria: In Search of Leadership Nigeria: In Search of Leadership, edited by Oladapo Fafowora, Tunde Adeniran and Olatunji Dare. Spectrum Books Limited/Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, Ibadan and Lagos, 1995. xii+366p. £18.50 paperback. ISBN 978 246 259 34. ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU University of Ibadan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 379, April 1996, Pages 295–297, htt…
The Politics of Wole Soyinka
Journal Article The Politics of Wole Soyinka Get access The Politics of Wole Soyinka, by Tunde Adeniran. Fountain Publications, Ibadan, 1994. vi+88 pp. N350 hardback; N250 paperback. ISBN 978-2679-41-0 and ISBN 978-2679-53-4 ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU University of Ibadan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 376, July 1995, Pages 424–425, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjo…
The Democratic Recession in Nigeria
Essay| May 01 1994 The Democratic Recession in Nigeria Rotimi T. Suberu Rotimi T. Suberu Rotimi T. Suberu, on sabbatical leave from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he is a lecturer in the political science department, is a peace fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He is the author of Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current Histo…
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
The Challenge of Ethnic ConflictThe Travails of Federalism in Nigeria Rotimi T. Suberu (bio) The need to establish a stable system of federal democracy has dominated the history of constitutional discourse and design in Nigeria since the winning of independence from Britain and the inauguration of the First Republic in 1960. Throughout the period of military government that began in 1966 and ended with the establishment of the Second Republic (19…
The Struggle for New States in Nigeria, 1976–1990
Journal Article THE STRUGGLE FOR NEW STATES IN NIGERIA, 1976–1990 Get access ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU Rotimi T. Suberu is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and recently completed doctoral work on the Nigerian federal system during the Second Republic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 361, October 1991, Pages 499–522, h…
The Nigerian State
Journal Article The Nigerian State Get access The Nigerian State, by William Graf. James Currey, London, 1988. xvi+281pp. £25.00 cloth, £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 313 7 and 0 85255 314 5. ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU University of IbadanNigeria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 360, July 1991, Pages 481–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098461 Publi…
Political opposition and inter‐governmental relations in the second Nigerian republic
Nigeria's Muddled Elections
The April 14 and 21 elections marked a momentous occasion—the first time one civilian government handed power to another. The elections were to be a milestone in Nigeria's history, which has been plagued by military rule, political instability, and poor governance. Instead of signaling a fresh hope for consolidation of democracy in the country, the elections were marred by flagrant fraud, allowing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to maintain i…
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
The Challenge of Ethnic ConflictThe Travails of Federalism in Nigeria Rotimi T. Suberu (bio) The need to establish a stable system of federal democracy has dominated the history of constitutional discourse and design in Nigeria since the winning of independence from Britain and the inauguration of the First Republic in 1960. Throughout the period of military government that began in 1966 and ended with the establishment of the Second Republic (19…
Federalism in Africa
Although it is often portrayed in global terms as a dysfunctional and failed state, oil-rich Nigeria in the comparative African context has been relatively successful in overcoming and containing the syndrome of state disintegration and large-scale internal disorder that has afflicted some of the continent's other large multiethnic states, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Nigeria's relative stability derives significantly fro…
The Struggle for New States in Nigeria, 1976–1990
Journal Article THE STRUGGLE FOR NEW STATES IN NIGERIA, 1976–1990 Get access ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU Rotimi T. Suberu is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and recently completed doctoral work on the Nigerian federal system during the Second Republic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 361, October 1991, Pages 499–522, h…
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
FEDERALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN NIGERIARotimi SuberuWashington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001, xxvi, 247pp, $14.95, ISBN 1-929223-28-5ETHNICITY AND SUB-NATIONALISM IN NIGERIAMichael VickersOxford: WorldView, 2000, xviii, 410pp, [Symbol Not Transcribed]49.95 cloth (ISBN 1-872142-43-5), [Symbol Not Transcribed]29.95 paper (ISBN 1-872142-44-3)These ambitious volumes address the development of Nigerian federalism and the complex i…
The Supreme Court and federalism in Nigeria
Since Nigeria's transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, the country's Supreme Court has risen from a position of relative political obscurity and institutional vulnerability into a prominent and independent adjudicator of inter-governmental disputes in this chronically conflicted federation. Examined here is the Court's arbitration, during President Olusegun Obasanjo's two civilian constitutional terms (1999-2007), of fifteen different…
Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations
What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/ centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politicoinstitutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan from the establishment of their respective federal orders to 2020. It shows that de/centralization varies greatly across its different dimensions as …
Managing Constitutional Change in the Nigerian Federation
Since making the transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria has witnessed intensive, but largely unfulfilled, pressures for comprehensive federal constitutional change. This article analyzes the multiple ethno-political drivers and institutional themes of Nigeria’s constitutional struggles, the conflicting approaches to federal reform by governmental, civic, and ethno-regional groups, and potential pathways to a more effective gov…
Political opposition and inter‐governmental relations in the second Nigerian republic
De/centralization in Nigeria, 1954–2020
Prevailing analyses highlight Nigeria’s transformation by ‘soldiers and oil’ from a decentralized to a hyper-centralized federation. Nuancing rather than repudiating such analyses, this systematic measurement of de/centralization in Nigeria over the 1954–2020 period demonstrates that centralization was partly rooted in the federation’s unitary colonial foundations and, thus, predated the advent of military autocracy. Furthermore, the country’s un…
Strategies for Advancing Anticorruption Reform in Nigeria
A vast literature documenting the structural embeddedness, grotesque scale, and devastating consequences of political corruption in Nigeria threatens to overshadow the tenacity of the country's anti-corruption “wars,” the recent gains in controlling electoral corruption, the development of a robust national discourse about improving the effectiveness of anticorruption reform, and the crystallization of potentially viable legislative and constitut…
The Nigerian federal system
The transformation and centralisation of the Nigerian federation by ‘soldiers and oil’ has produced contentious and contradictory outcomes. Many influential commentators describe the current centralised system of federalism as a veritable source of, rather than a credible solvent for, the country's multifaceted crises of unity, democracy, and development. A more balanced perspective would distinguish between the system's remarkable achievements i…
Political opposition and inter‐governmental relations in the second Nigerian republic
The Struggle for New States in Nigeria, 1976–1990
Journal Article THE STRUGGLE FOR NEW STATES IN NIGERIA, 1976–1990 Get access ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU Rotimi T. Suberu is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and recently completed doctoral work on the Nigerian federal system during the Second Republic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 361, October 1991, Pages 499–522, h…
The Nigerian State
Journal Article The Nigerian State Get access The Nigerian State, by William Graf. James Currey, London, 1988. xvi+281pp. £25.00 cloth, £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0 85255 313 7 and 0 85255 314 5. ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU University of IbadanNigeria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 90, Issue 360, July 1991, Pages 481–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098461 Publi…
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict
The Challenge of Ethnic ConflictThe Travails of Federalism in Nigeria Rotimi T. Suberu (bio) The need to establish a stable system of federal democracy has dominated the history of constitutional discourse and design in Nigeria since the winning of independence from Britain and the inauguration of the First Republic in 1960. Throughout the period of military government that began in 1966 and ended with the establishment of the Second Republic (19…
The Democratic Recession in Nigeria
Essay| May 01 1994 The Democratic Recession in Nigeria Rotimi T. Suberu Rotimi T. Suberu Rotimi T. Suberu, on sabbatical leave from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he is a lecturer in the political science department, is a peace fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He is the author of Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current Histo…
The Politics of Wole Soyinka
Journal Article The Politics of Wole Soyinka Get access The Politics of Wole Soyinka, by Tunde Adeniran. Fountain Publications, Ibadan, 1994. vi+88 pp. N350 hardback; N250 paperback. ISBN 978-2679-41-0 and ISBN 978-2679-53-4 ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU University of Ibadan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 376, July 1995, Pages 424–425, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjo…
Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria
Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria explores and analyses the underlying sources and salient features of recent ethnic minority conflicts in Nigeria, the largely controversial policies by which the Nigerian state has sought to contain these conflicts, and the prospects and preconditions for a more stable and equitable system of federal governance in the country. Through an insightful examination of two most recent minority conflic…
Nigeria
Nigeria: In Search of Leadership Nigeria: In Search of Leadership, edited by Oladapo Fafowora, Tunde Adeniran and Olatunji Dare. Spectrum Books Limited/Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, Ibadan and Lagos, 1995. xii+366p. £18.50 paperback. ISBN 978 246 259 34. ROTIMI T. SUBERU ROTIMI T. SUBERU University of Ibadan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 379, April 1996, Pages 295–297, htt…
Transition Without End
The authors examine the rise and fall of democratic transition and structural adjustment in Nigeria during the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993), chronicling the country's descent from the promise of reform and renewal to an unprecedented political and economic depression
Can Nigeria's New Democracy Survive
The fragility of Nigeria's new democracy is rooted in the onerous burden of the preceding era of military misrule and the shallow nature of the May 1999 transition from autocracy to democracy
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
FEDERALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN NIGERIARotimi SuberuWashington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001, xxvi, 247pp, $14.95, ISBN 1-929223-28-5ETHNICITY AND SUB-NATIONALISM IN NIGERIAMichael VickersOxford: WorldView, 2000, xviii, 410pp, [Symbol Not Transcribed]49.95 cloth (ISBN 1-872142-43-5), [Symbol Not Transcribed]29.95 paper (ISBN 1-872142-44-3)These ambitious volumes address the development of Nigerian federalism and the complex i…
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Ethnic Politics and Ethnic Conflict
ETHNIC POLITICS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT Michael Vickers. Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West State. Oxford: WorldView Publishing, 2001. 410 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. £49.95. Cloth. £24.95. Paper. Godfrey Mwakikagile. Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria. Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, 2001. 237 pp. Appendixes. Index. $59.00. Cloth. Rotimi T. Suberu. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nige…
Nigeria's Muddled Elections
The April 14 and 21 elections marked a momentous occasion—the first time one civilian government handed power to another. The elections were to be a milestone in Nigeria's history, which has been plagued by military rule, political instability, and poor governance. Instead of signaling a fresh hope for consolidation of democracy in the country, the elections were marred by flagrant fraud, allowing the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to maintain i…
The Supreme Court and federalism in Nigeria
Since Nigeria's transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, the country's Supreme Court has risen from a position of relative political obscurity and institutional vulnerability into a prominent and independent adjudicator of inter-governmental disputes in this chronically conflicted federation. Examined here is the Court's arbitration, during President Olusegun Obasanjo's two civilian constitutional terms (1999-2007), of fifteen different…
Religion and institutions
Conflicts over the status of Sharia Islamic law have dominated constitutional politics and ethno‐religious relations in the Nigerian federation for decades. The adoption of stringent Sharia codes by 12 Muslim majority states in northern Nigeria, beginning with Zamfara in 1999, was particularly contentious, provoking broad concerns about the viability and survival of Nigeria's innovatively structured multi‐ethnic federal system. But Sharia impleme…
Federalism in Africa
Although it is often portrayed in global terms as a dysfunctional and failed state, oil-rich Nigeria in the comparative African context has been relatively successful in overcoming and containing the syndrome of state disintegration and large-scale internal disorder that has afflicted some of the continent's other large multiethnic states, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Nigeria's relative stability derives significantly fro…
Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999–2006
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Nigerian federal system
The transformation and centralisation of the Nigerian federation by ‘soldiers and oil’ has produced contentious and contradictory outcomes. Many influential commentators describe the current centralised system of federalism as a veritable source of, rather than a credible solvent for, the country's multifaceted crises of unity, democracy, and development. A more balanced perspective would distinguish between the system's remarkable achievements i…
A nation betrayed
A nation betrayed: Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957, by Michael Vickers, Trenton and Asmara, Africa World Press, Inc., 2010, xxi + 346 pp., (paperback) ISBN 1-59221-733-8, (hardback) I
Managing Constitutional Change in the Nigerian Federation
Since making the transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria has witnessed intensive, but largely unfulfilled, pressures for comprehensive federal constitutional change. This article analyzes the multiple ethno-political drivers and institutional themes of Nigeria’s constitutional struggles, the conflicting approaches to federal reform by governmental, civic, and ethno-regional groups, and potential pathways to a more effective gov…
Strategies for Advancing Anticorruption Reform in Nigeria
A vast literature documenting the structural embeddedness, grotesque scale, and devastating consequences of political corruption in Nigeria threatens to overshadow the tenacity of the country's anti-corruption “wars,” the recent gains in controlling electoral corruption, the development of a robust national discourse about improving the effectiveness of anticorruption reform, and the crystallization of potentially viable legislative and constitut…
Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960–1966
Contemporary celebrations of Nigeria’s First Republic as a moment of benign and truly decentralized federalism belie the federal system’s fraught origins, profound contradictions, and violent disintegration. Although it creatively fostered regional self-rule while encouraging collegiate parliamentary coalitions at the center, federalism in the First Republic embodied fundamental flaws. The British colonial government’s promotion of a federation o…
De/centralization in Nigeria, 1954–2020
Prevailing analyses highlight Nigeria’s transformation by ‘soldiers and oil’ from a decentralized to a hyper-centralized federation. Nuancing rather than repudiating such analyses, this systematic measurement of de/centralization in Nigeria over the 1954–2020 period demonstrates that centralization was partly rooted in the federation’s unitary colonial foundations and, thus, predated the advent of military autocracy. Furthermore, the country’s un…
Authoritarianism, democracy and de/centralization in federations
What is the impact of democracy/authoritarianism regime change on de/ centralization in federations? Based on the annual coding of three politicoinstitutional aspects, 22 policy fields, and five fiscal categories, this article maps de/centralization in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan from the establishment of their respective federal orders to 2020. It shows that de/centralization varies greatly across its different dimensions as …
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