Confronting Potential Breakdown: The Nigerian Redemocratisation Process in Critical Perspective

The Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 55-77

  Uwazurike, P Chudi ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATISATION; POLITICAL REFORM; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0025639596     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00054227     Document Type: Article

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