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Book on Nigeria’s Political Economy of Federalism

Dele Babalola has written The Political Economy of Federalism in Nigeria (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). Babalola uses a political economy approach to analyze Nigeria’s struggles with federalism. Babalola contends that the federal government’s failure to distribute oil wealth fairly among various levels of government contributes to the dysfunctional nature of the nation’s federal system. Read more here.