chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This paper uses the recent wave of democratization and the resulting writing …

We examine the impact of civil war on democratization. Using a theoretical bargaining model, we hypothesize that … prolonged violence, war termination, the presence of natural resources, and international intervention influence democratization … civil war lowers democratization in the succeeding period. This finding appears to be robust to conditioning, different …

Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British … protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for … almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore, a matter for great regret that this country(Nigeria)has suffered …

exists a strong relationship between democracy and the level of income. In developing countries that are highly dependent on … economic literature suggests that there is a positive relationship between the level of income and democracy, it seems that oil … income, specifically, appears to prevent democratization in Muslim–majority countries. This paper will attempt to argue that …

The present paper aims to analyze the consequences of neo-liberalism on the prospect of democratization in Latin … level of evaluation highlights the deficiency of an efficacious political democratization at the level of the State and the …

and Agarwhal (2002) argue that democracy first increases corruption due to the newly introduced freedom and rights, and … then as democracy grows corruption decreases. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between inequality … and democracy in two directions, both the effect of democracy on inequality and the effect of inequality on democracy. It …

? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the “People”. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, ISBN 1868144453, 261 pages. * Dorman …