Nigeria began its fourth republic in May 1999 after a long spell of military dictatorship. The military gave the country a constitution that was not process-led at the point of exit from the political scene; it was undemocratic and largely repudiated by a large section of the public. This fact has led to various efforts at remediation. The civil society and incumbent state actors are involved in this process. This essay overviews the ongoing constitution amendment process by the National Assembly in Nigeria. While recognising the merits in the exercise depicted in the provisions for controversial issues such as independent candidacy, authorisation of expenditure, citizenship and socio-economic rights, it notes the absence of concurrence on them by the two chambers of the National Assembly. Detailed as the amendment would appear, it is argued that it has not addressed the central issues affecting the country, namely, the structure of the state and government. The essay concludes that the omission will return to trouble the polity.
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This paper estimates the intergeneration transmission of civicness by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 83 nations. There is significant transmission of civicness both on the mother’s and the father’s side. The estimates are quantitatively significant and provide evidence on the transmission of trustworthiness.
{"title":"Cultural Transmission of Civicness","authors":"Martin Ljunge","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1992894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1992894","url":null,"abstract":"This paper estimates the intergeneration transmission of civicness by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 83 nations. There is significant transmission of civicness both on the mother’s and the father’s side. The estimates are quantitatively significant and provide evidence on the transmission of trustworthiness.","PeriodicalId":341111,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Civil Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134251683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A recurring assumption in community development has been that when material support is provided on a one-to-one basis to the extended family or social and neighbourhood networks, such favours are repaid by offering help in return rather than money. Reporting a study of the community exchanges of 120 households in an English locality, however, the finding is that well over one-third of these were repaid using money. The outcome is a call for the community development literature to recognise and respond to the existence of this sphere of ‘paid favours’ which demonstrates how monetary transactions can be neither market-like nor profit-motivated.
{"title":"Repaying Favours: Unravelling the Nature of Community Exchange in an English Locality","authors":"Colin Williams","doi":"10.1093/CDJ/BSN002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CDJ/BSN002","url":null,"abstract":"A recurring assumption in community development has been that when material support is provided on a one-to-one basis to the extended family or social and neighbourhood networks, such favours are repaid by offering help in return rather than money. Reporting a study of the community exchanges of 120 households in an English locality, however, the finding is that well over one-third of these were repaid using money. The outcome is a call for the community development literature to recognise and respond to the existence of this sphere of ‘paid favours’ which demonstrates how monetary transactions can be neither market-like nor profit-motivated.","PeriodicalId":341111,"journal":{"name":"AARN: Civil Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130575323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-02-01DOI: 10.17813/MAIQ.12.1.31U376Q8M2H544H5
Carsten Vala, K. O’Brien
Research on social movements points to the role of networks in recruiting intimates and public spaces in recruiting strangers. But for Chinese Protestants, creative outreach strategies can substitute for previously existing relationships and initiate recruitment even when public proselytizing is forbidden, religion is rarely mentioned in the media, and direct contact with potential converts is discouraged. To attract strangers, evangelists in China rely on door-to-door proselytizing in the countryside, cultural performances embedded with religious messages in the cities, and one-on-one conversations when the opportunity arises. By contacting targets in the ordinary flow of life and fashioning appeals using resonant language, Protestant recruiters have become adept at attracting non-networked individuals in safe-enough spaces that appear in the creases of a reforming Leninist regime. More generally, the analysis suggests that networks sometimes play a smaller role in recruitment than is commonly thought, at least at first, and that social bonds may be as much a result of recruitment as a precondition for it.
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