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God-fatherism in the Politics of Nigeria:Continuity and Change

2011· article· en· W1581427214 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kamal Bello

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicRace, History, and American Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClientelismPoliticsCharismaPower (physics)HumanitiesPhenomenonIdeologyPolitical scienceSociologyEthnologyLawPhilosophyDemocracyEpistemology

Abstract

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Abstract: The concept of god-fatherism in other words clientelism; patron-client relationship in Nigerian politics is not a new phenomenon. It has been in existence right from the inception of party politics in the country. Thus, it is a phenomenon in continuity but with changes. This concept – god-fatherism in politics implies a dominant individual in the politics of an area or geo-political zone who is capable either by her/his influence/past record or current political power of determining who win elections in that area or zone. What is new or change however in theory and practice of god-fatherism in Nigerian politics is that, it has taken a different posture from the earlier posture which was based on ideology, charisma, contribution and achievement of the individual god-father to the current posture based on thuggery, money and coercion among others. This paper therefore tries to unravel the previous and current postures of god-fatherism in Nigerian politics and proffers suggestions for improvement. Key words: God-fatherism; Politics; Change; Nigeria Resume: Le concept du clientelisme d'un god-fatherism en d'autres termes ; les relations de patron-client dans la politique nigerienne ne sont pas un nouveau phenomene. Elles ont ete dans le juste d'existence du commencement de la politique de partis dans le pays. Ainsi, c'est un phenomene dans la continuite mais avec des changements. Ce concept , un God-fatherism dans la politique implique une personne dominante dans la politique d'un secteur ou d'une zone geopolitique qui est capable par son pouvoir politique record ou actuel d'influence/passe de determiner qui des elections de victoire dans ce secteur ou zone.Ce qu'il y a de neuf ou le changement cependant de la theorie et de la pratique d'un god-fatherism dans la politique nigerienne est ce, il a pris une posture differente de la posture plus tot qui a ete basee sur l'ideologie, le charisme, la contributionet l'accomplissement du parrain individuel a la posture actuelle basee sur le vol a main armee,l'argent et la coercition notamment. Ce document essaie donc de se demeler les postures precedentes et actuelles d'un god-fatherism dans la politique nigerienne et offre des suggestions pour l'amelioration. Mots cles: Un Dieu-fatherism; La politique; Changement; Nigeria

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.498
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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