Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria

• Main Author: Akinola, Adeoye O. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Africa-Politics and government.; Globalization.; Economic development.; African History.; African Politics.; Development Studies.

The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians. Adeoye O. Akinola tackles this "vexed" oil question by examining the political economy of efforts to deregulate the Nigerian downstream oil in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Globalization and Democratization Nexus
• 3. Deregulation Policy
• 4. The Quest for Development: Theoretical Discourse
• 5. The Structure and Nature of the Nigerian State
• 6. State Actors in the Downstream Oil Sector
• 7. Non-state Actors and Oil Sector Reform: Interests and Roles
• 8. The Deregulation Debate
• 9. Oil Subsidy Administration in Nigeria
• 10. Oil Sector Reform and the Scourge of Corruption
• 11. Globalization of the Nigerian State and Economy.