Power to the People or Power in the People, Reflections on the Nigerian Democratic System: Implication for Policy Development

Ugiagbe, Ernest Osas; Oseye, Sunday

doi:10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n4p247

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“…First, power is not a single entity to be possessed or enacted by an individual or group [42,43]. Rather, power, being a social structure itself, exists in a social relation, in other words, a social boundary or a social network [5,16].…”

Section: Redefining Powermentioning

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Power and Public Space: A Historical Observation of Seoul Plaza

Kim

Min

2019

Sustainability

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Power creates and changes space. Power may be various forms of authority, individual or social structure, complex situations or an unidentifiable force. This study focuses on understanding how power influences a space which is a social product of the exercise of power, thus re-defining power in spatial practices as an extensive introduction to the literature on power. This historical observation study conducts a case review on Seoul Plaza, a socio-political center of downtown Seoul, South Korea. A systematic review of widespread media coverage of the space and its events was performed, using newspaper articles and governmental database search systems for the time period from 1922 to 2016. Believing that power is as an endless structural process of competition and positing in which three social entities, authority, market and people, interplay towards an equilibrium stage of the process, this study concludes that a public space can be formed, transformed or characterized based on outcomes of such power competitions among social entities depending on their social status and how they are displayed.

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Section: Redefining Powermentioning

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Power and Public Space: A Historical Observation of Seoul Plaza

Kim

Min

2019

Sustainability

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Power to the People: An Inverse Role in Nigeria’s Politics and Governance

Emecheta¹

2016

International Journal of Area Studies

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An attempt to contextualize the political power structure in Nigeria exposes an orientation and practice that directly negates the democratic norm of power belonging to the people. Today, power belongs entirely to government officials who use it to advance the course of their political and economic interests. The people are thus, subjected to the point and path of complete alienation from the demands and benefits of their democratic citizenship. Given the weakness of the rule of law and institutions of check in Nigeria, established statutes and legislation have not been able to stand tall to relevance in dislodging the hegemony of the ruling elites as is evident in our case study-Imo State. This has since 1999, propped up a telling political effect, which also spirals to the arena of development, and quakes the stability of the state, and the nation at large. The paper examines the current domiciliation of political power, its potential effect on the people, and on service delivery in the country. A case is made for recovery of power for the people and reasserting the law as a balancing force and as means of providing check against breach of constitutionally prescribed political power structure and configuration.

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Power to the People or Power in the People, Reflections on the Nigerian Democratic System: Implication for Policy Development

Abstract: Democracy is often applauded as government of the

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Power and Public Space: A Historical Observation of Seoul Plaza

Power and Public Space: A Historical Observation of Seoul Plaza

Power to the People: An Inverse Role in Nigeria’s Politics and Governance

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