The Route to Power in Nigeria

Part I. Conceptual Framework

1. The Leadership-Governance-Development Nexus: Separating Coincidences from Correlations
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Part II. The Nigerian Environment

2. Values, Vision, and Leadership in a Diverse Society: A Review of Nigeria’s Environmental Engagement Challenges
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3. Leadership Selection, Governorship, and Development: The Institutional Dimension
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4. Role of Civil Society in Leadership Recruitment and Renewal
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5. Soft Choices in a Hard Environment: Meeting Post-Independence Governorship Challenges
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6. Engaging the Environment from the Macro-Economic Angle: Economic Management after Independence
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7. Balancing Domestic Welfare Needs With External “Conditionalities”: Leadership Engagement with the People and the International Environment
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Part III. Factors in the Rise and Fall of Leaders

8. Civility in the Lion’s Den: Leadership Selection and Retrenchment in the First Republic
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9. Leadership as an Imposition: the Military Shortcut to Power
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10. Enter the Fourth Republic: Another Shot at Dynamic Engagement or a Return to Neo-Military Governorship?
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Part IV. Lessons for Current and Aspiring Leaders

11. Visionary Leadership and Management of Uncertainty: A Summation
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Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, African Politics, Democracy, Political Science, African History