Sylvester Odion Akhaine
Biographic Data
| ID | 5712274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvester Odion Akhaine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvester Odion |
| FAMILY NAME | Akhaine |
| SIGNATURE | AKHAINE S O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lagos State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4345-6457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Confidence Trap
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to Present, by David Runciman. Princeton & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2013. xxiii, 393 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). David Runciman's The Confidence Trap is a racing narrative of travails of and confounding logic of its resilience. The premise for this illuminating reflection comes from key points in Alexis de Tocqueville's reading of America's democracy. These include democ…
Encountering the Nigerian State
The state is ubiquitous in contemporary societies, prompting scholars to assert that politics is about the study of the state. This point is underscored in Encountering the Nigerian State, an edited volume of eleven chapters. The state, everywhere, is endowed with certain attributes such as a bureaucracy and the monopoly of the use of coercion. The latter is rendered more evident in developing social formations by excesses in social control, and …
Democracy and development in Nigeria
Nigeria's 2011 elections
Journal Article Nigeria's 2011 elections: The 'crippled giant' learns to walk? Get access Sylvester Odion Akhaine Sylvester Odion Akhaine * *Sylvester Odion Akhaine ([email protected]) is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 110, Issue 441, October 2011, Pages 649–655, https://doi.org/10…
Nigeria
Discourses on oil are controversial globally. As Chamberlain Peterside has noted, hydrocarbons remain a predominant source of energy supply for the global economy and have occupied the centre stage
Nigeria's 2011 elections
Journal Article Nigeria's 2011 elections: The 'crippled giant' learns to walk? Get access Sylvester Odion Akhaine Sylvester Odion Akhaine * *Sylvester Odion Akhaine ([email protected]) is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 110, Issue 441, October 2011, Pages 649–655, https://doi.org/10…
Nigeria
Discourses on oil are controversial globally. As Chamberlain Peterside has noted, hydrocarbons remain a predominant source of energy supply for the global economy and have occupied the centre stage
Democracy and development in Nigeria
Nigeria's 2011 elections
Journal Article Nigeria's 2011 elections: The 'crippled giant' learns to walk? Get access Sylvester Odion Akhaine Sylvester Odion Akhaine * *Sylvester Odion Akhaine ([email protected]) is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 110, Issue 441, October 2011, Pages 649–655, https://doi.org/10…
Encountering the Nigerian State
The state is ubiquitous in contemporary societies, prompting scholars to assert that politics is about the study of the state. This point is underscored in Encountering the Nigerian State, an edited volume of eleven chapters. The state, everywhere, is endowed with certain attributes such as a bureaucracy and the monopoly of the use of coercion. The latter is rendered more evident in developing social formations by excesses in social control, and …
The Confidence Trap
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to Present, by David Runciman. Princeton & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2013. xxiii, 393 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). David Runciman's The Confidence Trap is a racing narrative of travails of and confounding logic of its resilience. The premise for this illuminating reflection comes from key points in Alexis de Tocqueville's reading of America's democracy. These include democ…
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