State-Civil Society Relations in Nigeria: A State-in-Society Approach Interrogation

Sunday Paul C. Onwuegbuchulam ()
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Sunday Paul C. Onwuegbuchulam: Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa

A chapter in A Sleeping Giant?, 2021, pp 31-44 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The beginning of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic – emerging from the ashes of successive military dictatorships in the country’s history – saw a relatively thriving civil society, which contributed in different ways to promoting democracy and good governance. However, under Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the Fourth Republic, the space for civil society participation in Nigeria’s sociopolitical sphere seems to be constrained. There is an apparent resurgence of military tactics to suppress and silence activists, the press, and the diverse civil society movements and groups. Against this backdrop, this chapter problematizes the relapse in state-society relations in Nigeria and interrogates the resurgence of constraints on civil society. Using the lens of Migdal’s State-in-Society framework, it interrogates participation, legitimacy, compliance, and contestation in state-society relations in the country and offers suggestions toward improving such.

Keywords: Nigeria; Civil society; State; Compliance; Contestation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73375-9_3

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