POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 141. LEADERSHIP AND NATION BUILDING THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The pride of any government is the attainment of higher value level of development in such a way that its citizens would derive natural attachment to governance. However, for a nation to be in a phase of development there must be some pre requisites, which include socio political and economic stability. The gap between the developed and the deve...Continue Reading »

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• 142. ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA, A CASE STUDY OF SOKO...

  » ABSTRACT Nigeria has earned an appellation for herself as a show case of Africa’s democracy for several score of years. Ironically, every journey towards such democratic process/experience had been laden with electoral violence even since the colonial days. With the rebirth of African liberalism and the wave of democratic consolidation process that swept across the globe/world in the 1990&rs...Continue Reading »

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• 143. THE POLITICS OF STREET BEGGING IN NIGERIA A CASE STUDY OF SOKOTO NORTH LOCAL GOV...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Begging on the streets, in the urban centers is one of the age long activities and perhaps occupations of the highly vulnerable, poverty ridden individuals in the society. This is particularly not limited to the developing countries alone. As revealed in the studies of different scholars, begging is not peculiar to developing countries; it is a univ...Continue Reading »

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• 144. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTRONIC CARD READER AND ELECTION CREDIBILITY IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Election is the process of choosing a candidate for public office. Election is a critical component of any democratic society. As such, Nigeria’s returned to democratic rule and engagement with the democratic process led to the conduct of its general elections in 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019 General elections are elections conducted i...Continue Reading »

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• 145. SOCIAL MEDIA ELECTIONEERING AND SUSTENANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA A SWOT ANALYS...

  » CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION The arrival of social media has greatly enhanced human communication. The new technology due to the participatory, interactive and cost effective nature has barely made everyone who can use it a mass communicator. This brings to fruition the prediction of Marshal McLuhan in 1964 that the world would someday become a “global village” whe...Continue Reading »

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• 146. THE CONDUCT OF 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The practice of democracy in Nigeria over a decade ago has not yielded much needed good governance. This is because democracy is practiced in such a way that responsible and competent people are scared away. Scholars and keen observers have attempted at unraveling the factors militating against translating democracy into good conduct of election...Continue Reading »

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• 147. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CARD READER IN ITS ADMINISTRATION DURING THE 2015 PRESI...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY For every democratic state there is a need to elect leaders that would guide and control the affairs of every state. Every democratic state must possess some distinctive yardsticks that differentiates them from other undemocratic states. Each democratic state elect their leaders through free and fair elections, the concepts of democracy and elections are int...Continue Reading »

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• 148. THE IMPACT OF CIVIC EDUCATION ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION A CASE STUDY OF 2019 GE...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The practice of democracy in Nigeria over two decade ago has not yielded much needed good governance. This is because democracy is practiced in such a way that responsible and competent people are scared away. Scholars and keen observers have attempted at unraveling the factors militating against translating democracy into good governance, (Adedinpe, 2002). A c...Continue Reading »

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• 149. THE NEW MEDIA AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN A NASCENT DEMOCRACY NIGERIA’S EXPE...

  » Introduction Democracy as the ascendant form of government thrives on the active involvement of the citizenry. This citizenry tends, however, to employ the metaphor of physics, to remain kinetic or potential energy, that is, energy at rest, except when converted to mechanical energy, which is energy in motion....Continue Reading »

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• 150. NIGERIAN POLICE AND SECURITY CHALLENGES DURING THE 2015 ELECTION A CASE STUDY OF...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Police is the agency of a community or government that is responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and detecting crime. The basic police mission of preserving order by enforcing rules of conduct or laws was the same in ancient societies as it is in sophisticated urban environments. The conception of police as a protective and law enforcement organization de...Continue Reading »

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• 151. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FISH PRODUCTION AS SOURCE OF REVENUE A CASE STUDY OF YAURI ...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Through out history, hunting and gathering has been man’s major occupational activity, and later man began to think of how to produce food, rear livestock as well as engaging in commercial activities. However, food production and rearing of animal in most developing countries is done largely at subsistence level. Agricultural activities such as food production, r...Continue Reading »

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• 152. THE CARD READER AND ELECTORAL CREDIBILITY IN THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Election is the process of choosing a candidate for public office. Election is a critical component of any democratic society. As such, Nigeria’s returned to democratic rule and engagement with the democratic process led to the conduct of its general elections in 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019 General elections are elections conduct...Continue Reading »

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• 153. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Criminal identification system is availability of relevant and timely information is of utmost importance in conduct of business by Police, particularly in investigation of crime and in tracking & detection of criminals. Police organizations everywhere have been handling large amounts of information and huge volume of records pertaining to crime and criminals. Informat...Continue Reading »

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• 154. WOMEN PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT IN OGUN STATE (1999-2015)

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background to the Study Gender incongruity in politics is a worldwide phenomenon, literature abounds showing that the level of women’s participation at the highest level of political activity accounts for their invisibility in the top positions of power. Locally and internationally, such low representation cut across countries with different political systems an...Continue Reading »

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• 155. WAR AGAINST TERRORISM NIGERIAN DIPLOMATIC DIMENSION AGAINST BOKO HARAM INSURGENC...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria. In 2013, more than 1,000 died in the conflict. The violence escalated dramatically in 2014, with 10,849 deaths. The insurgency has since spread to Cameroon, Chad, and Niger thus becoming a major regional conflictBoko Haram conducte...Continue Reading »

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• 156. TRIBAL HARMONY AND SUSTENANCE OF DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria has 250 ethnic groups. The most populous and politically influential include: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, and Tiv2.5% (Nigeria Fact Sheet, 2012) and there are more than 520languages spoken in Nigeria. By the way, nine of them are extinct. The other major languages are Igbo, Urhobo, Hausa, Yoruba, Ib...Continue Reading »

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• 157. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATION OF THE BOKO-HARAM INSURGENCE IN NIGERIA (2009-201...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study The entire world today is confronted with a plethora of challenges emanating from conflicts that pose direct threat to international and national peace, security, and development. Doubtless, despite their local origin, these conflicts constitute global concerns because when they occur, their impact can spread across borders. Societies irrespective o...Continue Reading »

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• 158. THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN DEMOCRATIC SUSTENANCE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF THE 2...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Of the different organs that make up any modern day society, one organ whose importance can never be over emphasized is the mass media. Little wonder the mass media has been described as the fourth estate of the realm that is after the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government in any democratic society. In the contemporary world, one fo...Continue Reading »

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• 159. THE ROLE OF THE LEGISLATURE IN STRENGTHENING DEMOCRATIC STRUCTURES IN NIGERIA’...

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Between 1945 and 1990, the period generally referred to as the Cold War, many countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa were mostly under authoritarian regimes. However, the wave of change brought down many of these regimes in the 1990s to the spread of democracy in many countries, particularly in Africa. Most developing countries, like Nigeri...Continue Reading »

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• 160. THE ROLE OF RETIRE MILITARY PERSONNELS IN THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA 1...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study By May 29, 1999, Nigeria had been through series of successful, as well as unsuccessful coups, which had installed 7 military regimes. The duration of each regime control of power and governance ranges from six months (AguiyiIronsi’s) to nine years (Gowon’s) (Ejiofor, 2002). However, collectively, the military had governed Nigeria fo...Continue Reading »

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