Aliyu Mukhtar KatsinaUmaru Musa Yar'adua University Katsina · Department of Political Science
Aliyu Mukhtar Katsina
PhD Political Science
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The major challenges connected to Nigeria’s political party politics includes ideology, corruption, money politics, ethno religious fragmentations, violence and a dominant ruling party with some opposition parties challenging each other. Studies on Nigerian political parties are narrow in advocating for practical solutions to the challenges of part...
This paper examines the theoretical assumptions and major principles of the just war theory (bellum justum) and argues that they are fundamentally intended to serve as an ethical and moral compass to guide the conduct of warfare, especially in contemporary period where advances in science and technology have made warfare an existential threat. The...
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib al-Mawardi was not just a great jurist of his time. He was also a great political theorist whose work resonated in the medieval Islamic period and beyond. The juristic theory of the state in Islam which al-Mawardi postulated in his opus, Ahkam al-Sultaniyya wal-Wilayat ad-Diniyya - The Ordinance of Government, highlights...
This paper focuses on presidential elections in Nigeria and how they undermine democratic consolidation in the Fourth Republic. It adopts the postulations of Juan Linz to show that because of the inherent structural, political, and sociological flaws in the presidential system of government, presidential elections affect the consolidation of the Ni...
Their nature and functions make political parties central to democratic governance especially in the new democracies of Africa that face the challenge of building strong and enduring democratic institutions. It is accepted that the existing trend in most of these democracies of one big party dominating the political space weakens democracy and unde...
This article investigates the capacity and organizational structure of three major opposition parties in Nigeria between 1999 and 2011. The objective of this investigation is to determine how this capacity, defined in terms of their electoral strength and organizational structure, affected their ability to provide viable opposition. These parties a...
This article examines the conception and practice of public administration from Islamic perspective. It attempts to achieve this objective through careful identification and discussion of the fundamental values and principles that guided the practice of public administration in the state of Medina under the Prophet and his four immediate successors...
This lecture discusses election and post-election violence in Nigeria and strategies for preventing its outbreak in 2015 and beyond. In this lecture, I show that in order to understand the causes of post-election violence in Nigeria, one needs to understand not only the nature of elections in Nigeria, the impartiality of the electoral umpire, the c...
A short guidebook for concerned citizens and other volunteers involved in monitoring elections in Nigeria in order to ensure credible and acceptable outcome. The handbook offers in brief chapters the broad outlines of the issues involved in monitoring elections, the challenges which volunteers will likely face, and how to address them in a non-viol...
This article discusses the body of laws and other regulations that guided the operation of political parties and party politics in Nigeria between 1999 and 2011 as a new democracy. Owing to the nature and scope of its functions, no single socio-political institution is as critical to governance and representation in a democratic state as a politica...
Writing about Islam has always been an enticing vocation for orientalists. The end of the Cold War saw a triad of Western media, the Christian right, and pseudo-intellectuals working stridently to project a specific image of Islam – repulsive and retrogressive in nature – in the consciousness of the West. This leads to a form of Islamophobia whereb...
This article investigates the parties and party systems in Nigeria
since independence. The article argues that the country has witnessed four
different types of party systems corresponding to the four democratization
attempts that saw the emergence of constitutional governments since 1960.
Special focus is awarded to the transformations of the...
This paper analyzes the impact of poverty on socialcrime in urban areas in Nigeria. It attempts
to link the spread of urban crime to three important variables. These are bad governance,
poverty, and inequality. The choice of Nigeria as the case study is informed by several
considerations. The first and the most important is that it has been alwa...
This paper analyses ethnic cleavages in Africa and the challenges of integration and unity in the continent. The choice of Nigeria as a case study is informed by the fact that the country is the most diverse in terms of ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious differences, just as it is the most populous. Nigeria embodies all the challenges which...
This paper develops a new approach towards understanding and explaining the causes behind the prevailing level of insecurity in Nigeria today. Today, the country is in the grip of various destructive forces that are coalescing to give it a failed-status toga. The paper shows that the current state of insecurity is a manifestation of deep-rooted and...
This article analyses the impact of Boko Haram as a source of security threat in Nigeria and how this affects West African regional security order. The paper adopts the view that West African regional security order is linked to the peace and stability of Nigeria as an independent, viable and prosperous country. Anything less than a stable and stro...
Between 1966 when it first forayed into politics and governance and 1999 when it finally disengaged itself, the military had dominated the political space and governed Nigeria for about thirty years. Within this period, several policies, programs, and institutions were conceived and deliberately implemented by different military regimes to promote...
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Question (1)
The 2020 US presidential election has great significance on the future of democracy in both the developed and developing world. One of the democratic institutions that would clearly be affected by the trajectory of democracy in the US is the political party. Parties will remain important pillars of democracy, but whether they will continue to remain important players in deciding programs and making policies is another thing. It will be interesting to project the lessons which parties in Africa could learn from the experience of parties in the US.
