Cleavage, Conflict, and Anxiety in the Second Nigerian Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4844202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Diamond (0000-0001-5471-666X, Bayero University Kano, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 629-668 |
| Publication date | 1982-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00000288 |
| OpenAlex | W2131982025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 12 |
Democratic politics embraces, inevitably and inescapably, an uneasy tension between conflict and consensus. If liberal democracy is defined as the institutionalisation of regular competition for political offices and policies, then clearly, there cannot be democracy without conflict. On the other hand, precisely because constitutional democracy is the institutionalisation of conflict, it is vulnerable to the decay of political order - and of the very political liberties that distinguish it from other governmental forms - that may result when conflict becomes to intense. The containment of political conflict within certain boundaries of behavioural restraint has, therefore, long figured prominently in the writing of theorists on the conditions for stable democracy
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2023 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |