Neoliberal consensus and Nigerian party politics

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/02589001.2023.2177262

Ambrose Ihekwoaba Egwim

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ABSTRACT This paper examines the role and significance of ideology for party politics in twenty-first century neoliberal Nigeria. The question it sets out to answer is: Has the market economy’s dominance led to the convergence of conservative and progressive/liberal ideologies in twenty-first century Nigerian political party contests? The importance of ideology for party politics in Nigeria seems to have declined with the market economy’s dominance over other systems. The deployment of neoliberalism as an ideology in the last three decades through common-sense rhetoric about the goodness of the free market, aided by international lending institutions, has led to a dilution of individual party ideologies.

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新自由主义共识与尼日利亚政党政治

本文考察了在21世纪新自由主义的尼日利亚，意识形态对政党政治的作用和意义。本文的问题是:在21世纪的尼日利亚政党竞选中，市场经济的主导地位是否导致了保守主义和进步/自由主义意识形态的融合?在尼日利亚，意识形态对政党政治的重要性似乎随着市场经济对其他制度的主导地位而下降。在过去的三十年里，新自由主义作为一种意识形态，在国际贷款机构的帮助下，通过关于自由市场好处的常识性言论，导致了个人政党意识形态的淡化。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote an African-centred scholarly understanding of societies on the continent and their location within the global political economy. Its scope extends across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines with topics covered including, but not limited to, culture, development, education, environmental questions, gender, government, labour, land, leadership, political economy politics, social movements, sociology of knowledge and welfare. JCAS welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature with a specific focus on debates and developments in Africa as part of a broader aim of contributing towards the development of viable communities of African scholarship. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews, notes from the field, debates, research reports and occasional review essays. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics. JCAS is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October.