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POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY POLITICS IN THE NIGERIAN FOURTH REPUBLIC
ABSTRACT
The paper unfolds the dysfunctional operation of political parties in the Nigerian Fourth Republic as regard the performance of such functions as elite recruitment, political socialization, interest articulation, interest aggregation and political communication which are basic support ingredients of an enduring democracy. The paper through historical analysis further unfolds the gap between the masses and the elites in the post-colonial Nigerian party politics as an intentional device by the elites to manipulate the Nigerian masses for their own selfish interest, and thus stated that for the present democratic experiment in the Nigerian state to survive party politics must be people-centered.
Keywords: democratic, elite recruitment, institutional fragility, interest aggregation, political communication, stability,