THE 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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