Larry Diamond’s scientific contributions

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Institutional Design, Ethnic Conflict Management, and Democracy in Nigeria
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March 2002

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Rotimi T. Suberu

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Larry Diamond

This book, comprising papers contributed to a conference entitled Constitutional Design 2000 and held at the University of Notre Dame in December 1999, brings together the views of the leading academic specialists on the theory of effective democratization, and of the institutional design tasks involved.

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... Despite the predominant hardliner approach, there are evidences of affirmative actions taken by the Nigerian political class to minimise the tension and problems caused by ethnic, religious and political conflicts that have doggedly defined the Nigerian landscape. In Nigeria, as in many other African pluralist and even non-African pluralist states, the elites from the different ethnic groups have adopted the principle of consociationalism -that is, the use of constitutions and constitutional/institutional arrangements as a political technology that accommodates the rights and concerns of the various ethnic compositions with the view of eliminating ethnic domination and determining patterns of authority (Lijphart 1969;Jinadu 1985;Suberu and Diamond 2002;Kuperman 2015). ...

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3 Labelling conflict groups in Nigeria: A comparative study of Boko Haram, Niger Delta, IPOB, and Fulani Militia
Institutional Design, Ethnic Conflict Management, and Democracy in Nigeria
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  • March 2002