Abstract
Since the return of electoral democracy to Nigeria in 1999, two of the four elected presidents have been former military dictators who have stressed anti-corruption and national security policies in populist campaigns. As military dictators in previous years, they had instigated regimes that had practiced stern military discipline; as populists they have leaned toward these two policies. Reactions to civilian corruption and threats to national security have represented the primary military rationales for military intervention in the past. A popular vote in 2015 for former military dictator General Muhammadu Buhari seems to have represented a continuing preference for populism over democracy. We will examine the new populism in Nigeria, complicated as it is by questions of ethnicity, religion and military identity, with a view to explaining the likely outcome of the first peaceful transference of power from one political party to another in Africa’s most populous country.
Highlights
RESUMO: Desde o retorno da democracia eleitoral à Nigéria em 1999, dois dos quatro presidentes eleitos foram ex-ditadores militares que enfatizaram as políticas anticorrupção e de segurança nacional em campanhas populistas
Adeakin and Zirker racy in what had been a long-term military dictatorship? In the following macroanalysis, we will hypothesize that there has been a great deal of continuity between some of the presidential periods in the pre-1999 and the post-1999 eras, and that the country pioneered a distinctive African variant of neo-liberal military-directed populism in the pre-1999 period that survived largely, but not completely, intact after 1999
That neo-liberal military-directed populism in Nigeria should be distinguished from other populist strategies that may have been employed by numerous political elites since democratization in 1999
Summary
RESUMO: Desde o retorno da democracia eleitoral à Nigéria em 1999, dois dos quatro presidentes eleitos foram ex-ditadores militares que enfatizaram as políticas anticorrupção e de segurança nacional em campanhas populistas. That neo-liberal military-directed populism in Nigeria should be distinguished from other populist strategies that may have been employed by numerous political elites (both federal and local) since democratization in 1999.
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