Dominant Political Parties, Struggling for Survival in Nigeria: The Narrative of Decapitated Sleaze and Crusade of Anti-Corruption Legitimacy

• Autorzy: Remi Chukwudi Okeke
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper examines how the dominant political parties in a corruption-prone political system have been struggling for survival (and legitimacy) based on anti-corruption crusades and the attendant supports. The study has in the process, interrogated what may constitute the core concerns of the leading political parties, in such corruption-bedeviled polities. The investigation is fundamentally, a case study of the Nigerian state. Accordingly, the central research questions of the paper are as follows: How are the two dominant political parties in Nigeria brawling for survival? Attendant to the wrestles, what is the fate of good governance in the country? The study finds that while the two dominant political parties are engaged in the scuffle to survive, a national vacuum is in contradiction, created in the area of general political mobilization. It has been posited in the paper that political parties' legitimacies are never constructed on single societal agenda. It is finally recommended in the work that while the government (in power) may be wedging wars against the debilitating sleaze in the system, the political parties (in order to survive and retain legitimacy) must continously engage in the articulation and aggregation of politically complementary programmes and actions. This would not only lead to the survival of the parties as political entities but in a generic dimension, lead to the critically desired national growth and survival in such countries, where corruption still presents the overriding national challenge. The methodology of the paper is logical argumentation. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Political parties; Corruption; Political system; Legitimacy

PL

Partie polityczne; Korupcja; System polityczny; Prawomocność

• Czasopismo: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (ILSHS)
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: 67
• Strony: 78--84

Twórcy

autor

Remi Chukwudi Okeke

• University of Nigeria, Nsukka

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Identyfikatory

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.67.78