Interstate Relations in Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13783102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eghosa E Osaghae (0000-0002-2634-2506, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038166 |
| OpenAlex | W2081974167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Interstate relations in Nigeria have tended to be more competitive and conflictual than cooperative. There are several reasons for this, but the emergence of the federal government as the master government, which has virtually reduced interstate relations to how states compete to maximize their shares of the country's resources, provides the key to any meaningful analysis of these relations. By focusing on a number of specific issues, this article shows why and how the distortion of the federal framework of interstate relations has made center-inspired competition (and cooperation) the prevalent form of relations
Competition (biology · Distortion (music · Government (linguistics · Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Engineering · Global Political and Social Dynamics · Public Administration · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2010 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |