Sovereignty,+Authority,+and+Power

__A. Political culture, communication, and socialization__ 1. We currently have a corrupt system...the elections for presidency have been rigged since 1999. This is due to the fact that the same party has won consecutively through 4 elections. 2. Most popular form of communication is word of mouth still, and so communication is still lacking

__B. Nations and States__ 1. 36 States 2. 1 Federal Capital, Abuja
 * # Abuja
 * 1) Anambra
 * 2) Enugu
 * 3) Akwa Ibom
 * 4) Adamawa
 * 5) Abia
 * 6) Bauchi
 * 7) Bayelsa
 * 8) Benue
 * 9) Borno
 * 10) Cross River
 * 11) Delta
 * 12) Ebonyi || # Edo
 * 13) Ekiti
 * 14) Gombe
 * 15) Imo
 * 16) Jigawa
 * 17) Kaduna
 * 18) Kano
 * 19) Katsina
 * 20) Kebbi
 * 21) Kogi
 * 22) Kwara
 * 23) Lagos
 * 24) Nasarawa || # Niger
 * 25) Ogun
 * 26) Ondo
 * 27) Osun
 * 28) Oyo
 * 29) Plateau
 * 30) Rivers
 * 31) Sokoto
 * 32) Taraba
 * 33) Yobe
 * 34) Zamfara ||

__C. Supranational governance__ 1. Closest thing would be U.N. 2. Accepts ICJ and ICCt

__D. Sources of power__ 1. Military power 2. Technically working constitution...

__E. Constitutions (forms, purposes, application)__ 1. Adopted May 5, 1999, effective May 29, 1999 2. Established a similar system to the U.S., but b/c of frequent changes and such...is widely ignored



__F. Regime types__ 1. Authoritarian rule 2. Military dictatorship 3. Power has transfered hands multiple times since 1966 (Agiyi Ironsi), with the military coup d'etats building up 4. From 1960 - 1979, Nigeria contained a parliamentary system, afterwards they had a presidential system. 5. Currently a "federal republic"



__G. Types of economic systems__ 1. Mixed Market Economy 2. Centered around oil, but only small percentage actually benefits

__H. State building, legitimacy, and stability__ 1. Legitimacy is very low, mainly because power has transferred hands so many times in the past 50 years. 2. Another effect of this power transfer is that stability is also low. While Nigeria may now have a federal republic system, military force has been used to back every regime.

__I. Belief systems as sources of legitimacy__ 1. Religion: Within the North, Islam is the driving force behind many of the state governmental systems. They typically follow Islamic law, as opposed to English common law/traditional law followed in the rest of the country 2. I believe that we want to follow a liberalism ideology, but due to fragmentation...not very evident

__J. Governance and accountability__ 1. The rest of the gov't typically follows the executive branch in many of their decisions. 2. The gov't controls the people using military force, and so is really free to do what it would like, especially because corruption is unchecked by any power.

-Eric B. Niu

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