Nigeria

vote buying

the act of offering money or other goods or favors in exchange for the vote of a voter in elections which is growing and has occurred in the last 6 elections.

Para-statals

(corporations owned by the state and designated to provide commercial and social welfare services).

Presidential Election Process

-If they do not receive an outright majority, a second ballot election may take place and must receive at least 25% of all votes cast in 2/3 of the states.

linkage institutions

-Institutions that connect citizens to government. The mass media, interest groups, and political parties are the three main linkage institutions.

Prebendalism

-Patron-client relationship that uses governmental shares to benefit supporters in Nigeria, usually connected to ethnicity and religion.

People's Democratic Party (PDP)

-Political party that has dominated Nigerian politics since its formation in 1998; its base was originally the Hausa Muslim ethnic group of northern Nigeria

Muhammudu Buhari

-The current president of Nigeria who is also muslim

Independent National Election Commission (INEC)

-The electoral body set up in 1998 to oversee elections in Nigeria.

Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria)

-The president of Nigeria from 2007-2010 (christian)

Labor Union (Interest Group)

-organized to protest the government's hike in fuel prices and taxes, and when the government agreed to listen, the strike organizers demanded more.

House of Representatives

-the 539 seats are elected from single member districts by plurality vote the result is regional representation with multiple ethnic based coalitions.

ethnic advocacy

30 month war with the government in which thousands of Igbo (native people) starved to death in order to carry out a secessionist movement

national assembly

Nigeria's congress

What is the main source of information for most Nigerians

Radio, newspaper, and tv being more popular in cities

Common interest groups affecting political change

business interests, human rights, professional association, journalist union

Senate

elected by direct popular vote the result is regional representation with multiple ethnic based coalitions.

federal republic

government in which power is divided between the national, or federal, government and the states

Nollywood

Nigerian film industry

All Progressives Congress (APC)

Opposition political party in Nigeria formed in 2013 by merger of largest opposition parties and defections from the ruling People's Democratic Party