Party Constitutions and Political Challenges in a Democracy: Nigeria in the Fourth Republic

Party Constitutions and Political Challenges in a Democracy: Nigeria in the Fourth Republic

Author: Aliyu Mukhtar Katsina
Publisher: IIUM Press
ISBN: 9789674184070
Weight: 0.37kg
Pages: 268pp
Year: 2016
Price: RM60

Party Constitutions and Political Challenges in a Democracy: Nigeria in the Fourth Republic is a book about political parties in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic – their nature, character, behavior – and how they use constitutions to set their priorities and tackle political challenges inherent in their environment. The discourse on parties as important democratic institutions and that of party politics as an indispensable component of electoral and representative democratic governance in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic is intriguing. What other reason(s) exist(s) to compel parties to adopt constitutions; how do political parties navigate their way using their respective constitutions through the maze of challenges that exist in their environment; how do they respond to these challenges; and how and why do their responses differ from each other.