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Democracy And Political Crisis In Nigeria
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1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE RESEARCH
The
scope of this study will be limited to Sabon Gari Local Government of
Kaduna in Nigeria. The scope of this research will also be looking at
the level of political crisis in 2011. The study will be limited due to
the availability of the literatures on the subject matter. Also the
access to the target audience in the rural community of Sabon Gari Local
Government will serve as limitations.
In the course of this
research, time and financial constrain were also some of the major
obstacles faced in the research. Research work requires time and money
to be able to get access to materials, printing of questionnaire and
also the day – to – day expenses which will be needed.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
A. DEMOCRACY
Greek,
“rule by people†according to (Thompson, 1997) democracy means
community government through its representatives for its own benefit.
Democracy is a system of governance which allows people to freely elect
their leaders and hold them accountable and which provides opportunity
for the greater number of people to use their human potentials to
survive in dignity
B. POLITICAL PARTY
One of the
oldest definitions of political party was given by (Sklar, 1963) as
body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national
interest upon some particular principles in which they all agreedâ€. In a
nutshell, political parties are association that serve, both as
interest and pressure groups performing the important function of
recruitment of political actors, mobilization of citizenry and provision
of choice alternative for the populace organizing and campaigning for
votes.
C. POLITICAL CRISIS
By implication,
therefore political crisis is the unsteadiness or inconsistence
situations created in a polity as a result of violence and/or unpatented
transfer of power from one administration to another.
D.
VIOLENCE: Includes every variety of protest, militancy, coercion,
destruction, or muscle flexing which a given observer happens to fear of
condemn.
1.9 OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS
This research work consists of five chapters
The
first chapter includes the introductory part of the work which consist
general background of the study, statement of the research problems,
aims and objectives of the study, research question, proposition,
methodology, justification of the study, scope and limitation of the
study, definition of terms, outlines of chapter and references.
Chapter two covers literature review on Democracy and Political Crisis, theoretical framework and reference.
While
chapter three consists of the background of the study, history of Sabo
Gari Local Government, geographic location, religion, economy,
socio-cultural, administrative structure
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