Review article
THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL DIVISIONS ONTO THE CONSOLIDATION OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA
Gordana Iličić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8199-2379
; University of Mostar, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Abstract
The paper is about the issue how social divisions influence the level of democracy consolidation in Nigeria. It is found that the multiple ethnic groups in the country contributed to the social conflicts and divisions. Next to the colonialism, the religious fractionalisms and fight for the control over economical resourses contributed to it too. A long exposure to such deep crises had a negative refle- ction onto democracy consolidation so that long-term forms of wrong political and social presen- tation disabled the potentials for institutional consolidation. Therefore the historically entranched and complex social divisions in Nigeria did not succeed in finding a consensus outside the party frames. That is why the process of democracy consolidation and transition is marked with failures in achieving the stability of the whole political system and its acters.
Keywords
Nigeria; transformation; democracy consolidation; ethnic groups.
Hrčak ID:
278770
URI
Publication date:
3.6.2022.
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