PATRON -CLIENT POLITICS AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA.
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Richard A. Joseph… is usually credited with first using the term prebendalism to describe patron-client or neopatrimonialism in Nigeria. Since then the term has commonly been used in scholarly literature and textbooks. The Catholic Encyclopedia defines a prebend as the “right of member of chapter to his share in the revenues of a cathedral.” Joseph used the term to describe the sense of ...
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