Federalism, centrism, and the crisis of the Nigerian academy
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article focuses on the crisis of the academy in Nigerian federalism. It begins by departing from the literature that conceptualizes the crisis of African universities in terms of state incorporation of the academy. The article draws attention to the necessity of differentiating federal polities from unitary systems and presents federations as being distinct for their assignment of university education competence to make for jurisdictional pluralism. Drawing on the fiscal and comparative federalism literatures, it traces the crisis of the academy partly to federal erasure of jurisdictional authority of the states, and partly to a fiscal regime of distributive revenue pool and the associated lack of consequences for opportunistic behaviour. It shows that the erasure of jurisdictional pluralism exposes the entire university system to adverse developments at the centre. It also shows that opportunistic behaviour weakens public institutions and undermines the capacity of the universities to deliver services.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it