The document discusses the contentious issue of the removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria in early 2012 and the resulting increase in petrol prices. It argues that the opposition to this policy is largely due to the Nigerian public's lack of trust in the government as a result of past broken promises. It suggests that for the government to regain trust and cooperation, it needs to fulfill its promises to the people and cut wasteful spending to demonstrate its commitment to improving citizens' lives. The document also analyzes whether the policy change is better described as the "removal of subsidy" or a "pump price hike", concluding that most Nigerians see it as the latter due to its direct impact on their cost of living.
This document discusses the debate around the economic efficiency of secured credit. It outlines some of the major theories that have been proposed to both support and criticize the efficiency of secured credit, such as signaling theory and monitoring/bonding theory. However, the document notes that after decades of analysis, no consensus has emerged on whether secured credit is truly efficient. While some argue it lowers borrowing costs, others believe it simply redistributes value from unsecured to secured creditors. Overall, the debate remains contested with reasonable arguments on both sides.
This document provides an overview of Pier Paolo Pasolini's formulation of "free indirect discourse" as a cinematic technique. It discusses how Pasolini transposed the literary concept of free indirect discourse into film terms, drawing on theories from literary critics. Though Pasolini's understanding of free indirect discourse had flaws when applied to cinema, it nonetheless exposed techniques the cinema had not previously acknowledged. The document examines Pasolini's use and eventual abandonment of free indirect discourse in his own films, and how this sheds light on the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in the cinematic image.
Analysis of the effect of fuel subsidy removal on selected food prices in por...Alexander Decker
This study analyzed the effect of fuel subsidy removal on prices of selected food items in Port Harcourt, Nigeria from 2001-2012. Regression analysis showed a significant relationship between food prices and fuel subsidy amounts. Prices of items like beef and fish increased substantially after subsidy removals from 2001-2012. Comparisons of food prices before and after subsidy changes supported the finding that prices rise when subsidies are removed. The study concluded that removing fuel subsidies affects food prices and recommended more gradual implementation of subsidy policies to avoid sharp food price increases.
Evolution of the antipsychiatry movementElsa von Licy
This document summarizes the history and evolution of the antipsychiatry movement from the 1960s to present day. It began as an anti-establishment movement led by thinkers like Foucault, Laing, Szasz, and Basaglia who criticized biological psychiatry and advocated that mental illness was socially constructed. By the 1980s, the movement lost support and transformed into a patient-based mental health consumer movement focused on promoting consumer rights and alternatives to traditional psychiatric treatment through advocacy groups.
- Modern Orientalism was influenced by scholars like Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan. Sacy systematized Orientalism and established it as a scholarly field of study, though he presented only fragments of information about the Orient tailored for a European audience.
- Renan applied philology to the study of Oriental Semites and Semitic languages, treating them as inferior specimens in his linguistic laboratory experiments. He constructed polarized views of Semitic and Indo-European languages that reinforced European superiority.
- Later Orientalists built upon this framework, reducing the Orient to a set of generalized characteristics that could be scrutinized and explained according to European analytical methods and perspectives. They presented selective representations of
Veil as a Symbol of Manicheanism in the World Between Algeria and FranceHimawan Pradipta
This paper discusses veil no longer as a hijaab but as a symbol of political stance, an emblem of resistance, and a demarcation between men and women as well as France and Algeria. This diversity of the veil's function indicates a duality that correlates with the concept of Manicheanism. Moreover, the stem object of this paper is Frantz Fanon's "Algerian Unveiled" which will be elaborated by new perspectives.
Abnormalities of hormones and inflammatory cytokines in women affected with p...Alexander Decker
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have elevated levels of hormones like luteinizing hormone and testosterone, as well as higher levels of insulin and insulin resistance compared to healthy women. They also have increased levels of inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and leptin. This study found these abnormalities in the hormones and inflammatory cytokines of women with PCOS ages 23-40, indicating that hormone imbalances associated with insulin resistance and elevated inflammatory markers may worsen infertility in women with PCOS.
This document discusses the debate around the economic efficiency of secured credit. It outlines some of the major theories that have been proposed to both support and criticize the efficiency of secured credit, such as signaling theory and monitoring/bonding theory. However, the document notes that after decades of analysis, no consensus has emerged on whether secured credit is truly efficient. While some argue it lowers borrowing costs, others believe it simply redistributes value from unsecured to secured creditors. Overall, the debate remains contested with reasonable arguments on both sides.
This document provides an overview of Pier Paolo Pasolini's formulation of "free indirect discourse" as a cinematic technique. It discusses how Pasolini transposed the literary concept of free indirect discourse into film terms, drawing on theories from literary critics. Though Pasolini's understanding of free indirect discourse had flaws when applied to cinema, it nonetheless exposed techniques the cinema had not previously acknowledged. The document examines Pasolini's use and eventual abandonment of free indirect discourse in his own films, and how this sheds light on the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in the cinematic image.
Analysis of the effect of fuel subsidy removal on selected food prices in por...Alexander Decker
This study analyzed the effect of fuel subsidy removal on prices of selected food items in Port Harcourt, Nigeria from 2001-2012. Regression analysis showed a significant relationship between food prices and fuel subsidy amounts. Prices of items like beef and fish increased substantially after subsidy removals from 2001-2012. Comparisons of food prices before and after subsidy changes supported the finding that prices rise when subsidies are removed. The study concluded that removing fuel subsidies affects food prices and recommended more gradual implementation of subsidy policies to avoid sharp food price increases.
Evolution of the antipsychiatry movementElsa von Licy
This document summarizes the history and evolution of the antipsychiatry movement from the 1960s to present day. It began as an anti-establishment movement led by thinkers like Foucault, Laing, Szasz, and Basaglia who criticized biological psychiatry and advocated that mental illness was socially constructed. By the 1980s, the movement lost support and transformed into a patient-based mental health consumer movement focused on promoting consumer rights and alternatives to traditional psychiatric treatment through advocacy groups.
- Modern Orientalism was influenced by scholars like Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan. Sacy systematized Orientalism and established it as a scholarly field of study, though he presented only fragments of information about the Orient tailored for a European audience.
- Renan applied philology to the study of Oriental Semites and Semitic languages, treating them as inferior specimens in his linguistic laboratory experiments. He constructed polarized views of Semitic and Indo-European languages that reinforced European superiority.
- Later Orientalists built upon this framework, reducing the Orient to a set of generalized characteristics that could be scrutinized and explained according to European analytical methods and perspectives. They presented selective representations of
Veil as a Symbol of Manicheanism in the World Between Algeria and FranceHimawan Pradipta
This paper discusses veil no longer as a hijaab but as a symbol of political stance, an emblem of resistance, and a demarcation between men and women as well as France and Algeria. This diversity of the veil's function indicates a duality that correlates with the concept of Manicheanism. Moreover, the stem object of this paper is Frantz Fanon's "Algerian Unveiled" which will be elaborated by new perspectives.
Abnormalities of hormones and inflammatory cytokines in women affected with p...Alexander Decker
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have elevated levels of hormones like luteinizing hormone and testosterone, as well as higher levels of insulin and insulin resistance compared to healthy women. They also have increased levels of inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and leptin. This study found these abnormalities in the hormones and inflammatory cytokines of women with PCOS ages 23-40, indicating that hormone imbalances associated with insulin resistance and elevated inflammatory markers may worsen infertility in women with PCOS.
This document proposes a theory about the relationship between particularized trust, institutions, generalized trust, and economic wellbeing. It hypothesizes that an increase in particularized trust leads to stronger institutions, which then leads to increased generalized trust and economic prosperity. The document outlines this theory and presents three hypotheses to test the relationships between these variables at both the individual and national levels. It then describes the methodology and analyses that will be used to empirically assess the hypotheses using data from the United States and Italy.
This document summarizes research on the concepts of power and trust. It defines power as the ability to influence or control others' behavior, while trust involves having a firm belief in someone or something's reliability. The document discusses different styles of trust-building, the role of trust networks, and the relationship between political legitimacy, democracy, and trust/distrust. It notes that corruption and an unfair legal system can undermine trust and threaten democracies.
The Mediating Role of Group Cohesion in the Relationship between Interpersona...inventionjournals
The phenomenon of interpersonal trust holds a significant place in management literature and its potential and possibilities gather momentum with every attempt of research and discourse on the topic.This paper attempts to foresee the impact of interpersonal trust on group cohesion and team effectiveness. This study intends to empirically validate the mediating role of group cohesion in the relationship between interpersonal trust and team effectiveness. It is envisaged that this study based on primary data collected from 177 scientists from three nationalized research and development organizations in central Kerala, South India and carried out during the time period of June to September 2016 ,will add to our understanding of the link between interpersonal trust,group cohesion and team effectiveness.Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used to authorize the relationship among the variables. Findings of the study are conferred, together with limitations and suggestions for future research. This empirical study reiterates through its analysis and results that there is significant relationship between interpersonal trust and group cohesion. The study provides a deeper and richer understanding in explaining the relationship between group cohesion and team effectiveness. This study portrays that group cohesion partially intercedes the relationship between Interpersonal trust and team effectiveness
Organized Crime Essay. Abadinsky and Cresseys Definitions of Organized Crime ...Kristina Jenkins
Perception of Organized Crime Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. Organized crime - 380 Words - NerdySeal. Understanding Organized Crime Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Crime Essay | Legal Studies - Year 12 HSC | Thinkswap. Crimes Essay Legal Studies 4 - Evaluate the effectiveness of sentencing .... Online Essay Help | amazonia.fiocruz.br.
Political Instution, Public Confidence In, Empirical Articlejcarlson1
This document summarizes three competing interpretations of declining public confidence in the U.S. government: the symbolic change thesis, regime effects thesis, and devolution thesis. It outlines hypotheses derived from each and discusses how the authors will evaluate these hypotheses by analyzing the relationship between government confidence and policy preferences over time, across policy domains, and with respect to Congress and the presidency using General Social Survey data. The analysis aims to advance understanding of declining confidence and its potential role in contemporary policy conflicts and welfare state retrenchment.
Impersonal trust can be developed through institutional mechanisms, social categories, roles, and norms even without direct personal contact. In virtual organizations, sources of impersonal trust include third-party reputation systems, standards for secure communication, and identification with a collective group. The sources provide indirect information about trustworthiness to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange when interpersonal relationships are difficult to form due to geographic distance and lack of personal experience online. Impersonal and interpersonal trust are complementary and interdependent, with impersonal forms grounded in interpersonal expectations and values over time.
The world bank policy research working paper _ dr malik khalid mehmood ph_dMalik Khalid Mehmood
This paper examines how donor and non-state actor service provision can potentially undermine or strengthen citizens' legitimating beliefs towards their government. It hypothesizes that service provision by outside actors could weaken citizens' willingness to comply with government if they credit the outside actors rather than the government. However, service provision could also strengthen legitimating beliefs if citizens see the government as essential in coordinating these outside resources. The paper uses Afrobarometer survey data from 19 African countries to assess these competing hypotheses, finding that service provision by outside actors seems to strengthen rather than undermine citizens' relationship with the state.
This document presents a formal analysis of patronage politics. It begins with an overview of patron-client relationships and how they have been used across various societies and political systems. It then presents a formal model to analyze patronage politics, focusing on political competition between two parties when one is the incumbent party that can allocate public resources toward public goods or patronage. The model considers how parties choose political platforms, and how citizens choose which party to support based on ideology, public goods provision, and patronage benefits. The analysis seeks to explain the existence and resilience of patronage in different contexts.
This document presents a formal analysis of patronage politics. It discusses how patronage has been used across many different societies and time periods. While new democracies were expected to reduce corrupt political behaviors, patronage has persisted in many cases. The paper develops a formal model to analyze how patronage is determined by political competition between parties and the relevance of different citizen groups, rather than just costs of co-opting citizens. It aims to clarify contradictions in how patronage exists in both developed and developing democracies.
This document presents a formal analysis of patronage politics. It discusses how patronage has been used across many different societies and time periods. While new democracies were expected to reduce patronage and corruption, in many cases patronage has persisted. The paper develops a formal model to analyze how patronage is determined by political competition between parties and the relative importance of citizen groups, rather than just costs of co-opting citizens. It aims to clarify contradictions in how patronage exists in both developed and developing democracies.
This document summarizes academic literature on trust and its relationship to performance. It defines trust as an expectation of competence, honesty and goodwill. Trust is important when there is risk and lack of control. The document discusses how interpersonal and inter-organizational trust can positively impact performance by easing negotiations and reducing conflict. It also examines how trust within teams can improve cooperation and knowledge sharing, leading to better performance. The document uses a New Year's Eve party case study to analyze how trust was important for its success with little investment.
This document summarizes research on the effect of government funding on nonprofit administrative efficiency. Some research finds that government funding can increase nonprofit administrative costs through increased bureaucracy, professionalization, and compliance requirements. However, other research finds government funding can also improve efficiency by allowing nonprofits to achieve scale. This paper aims to empirically test the relationship between public funding and nonprofit efficiency using a longitudinal dataset of nonprofit organizations.
1. This document outlines a research study that analyzes levels of trust in the Korean and US governments using social media data. It describes collecting data from news articles, tweets, and forum comments/replies from both countries between 1995-2015.
2. The study aims to compare expressions of trust in the two governments across different media and over time. It expands the scope of trust-related words beyond direct terms like "trust" and analyzes topics related to government ability, benevolence, and integrity.
3. Preliminary results found differences in how each country discusses their government. Koreans referred more emotionally to specific issues/leaders, while Americans expressed more objective political opinions collectively. The study will continue with
1) Trust develops in virtual communities through impersonal forms that rely on social categories and expectations of reciprocity, which allows for the development of "thin trust" or swift trust.
2) Over time, as interactions are repeated, trust can evolve into more interpersonal forms based on direct knowledge of other community members, their self-disclosure, and shared experiences.
3) However, the development of trust in a virtual community depends on factors like the community's purpose and the nature of interactions, which may allow trust to be based more on impersonal forms like trust in the community itself rather than interpersonal trust between members.
The Wisdom of Some Do We Always Need HighConsensus to Shape.docxpelise1
The Wisdom of Some: Do We Always Need High
Consensus to Shape Consumer Behavior?
Michael R. Sciandra, Cait Lamberton, and
Rebecca Walker Reczek
From the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to prompt healthier eating to the Environmental Protection
Agency’s desire to prompt people to engage in environmentally friendly behaviors, a wide range of policy
makers aim to persuade consumers. To do so, they must decide how and whether to use information about
the behavior of other consumers as part of their persuasive message. In four experimental studies, the
authors demonstrate that the persuasive advantage of high- versus low-consensus information depends
on the target consumer’s trait level of susceptibility to interpersonal influence (SII). Low-SII consumers
differentiate between low- and high-consensus information, such that they are more persuaded by
high-consensus information. In contrast, high-SII consumers find any cue about the behavior of others
persuasive, regardless of whether it is high or low consensus. Importantly, this finding suggests that policy
makers may find success motivating behavioral change even in low-consensus situations. The authors close
by reporting data from two broadscale correlational surveys that identify behavioral, psychographic, and
demographic characteristics related to consumer SII as well as domains in which low consensus currently
exists, so that policy makers can identify and target these individuals and related issues.
Keywords: persuasion, susceptibility to interpersonal influence, social norms marketing, consensus, social proof
P
olicy makers often want to persuade people to change
their thoughts and behaviors. For example, politicians
frequently stump for votes, advocate for change, and seek
support for new policies or legislation. Similarly, state and local
governmental agencies and nonprofit nongovernmental orga-
nizations (NGOs) continually encourage consumers to engage
in a multitude of desirable behaviors, including eating healthy
foods, staying physically active, recycling, and conserving en-
ergy. As such, policy makers frequently employ persuasive
messages designed to encourage specific behaviors. For ex-
ample, in May 2015, New York City launched a campaign de-
signed to reduce consumer waste and generated awareness
through persuasive messages on buses and subways and in
digital communications (Gerlat 2015).
Prior research in psychology and marketing has indicated that
the success of such persuasive messages is largely contingent on
two factors: (1) the credibility of the message source (i.e., the
policy maker or organization; Petty and Briñol 2008) and (2) the
strength or quality of the message argument (i.e., how strong
a case is made for the advocated attitude or behavior; Petty and
Cacioppo 1984). In general, most policy makers are endowed
with source credibility by virtue of political power (in the case of
elected officials), legal authority (e.g., state and local govern-
ment age.
Comparing Public and Private Organizations-Empirical Research and teh Power o...Muhelwan Muhelwan
This article summarizes and assesses over two decades of empirical research comparing public and private organizations in areas such as goal complexity, organizational structure, personnel processes, and work attitudes. The research both supports and refutes conventional assumptions about differences between public and private organizations. For example, while public organizations are assumed to have more complex goals, public managers do not report higher goal complexity than private managers. Similarly, while public organizations are assumed to have more rules, public and private managers report similar levels of formalization. The research converges in some ways but also presents anomalies, supporting the need for continued empirical examination of the public-private distinction.
Demographic analysis of factors influencing purchase of life insurance produc...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study that examined factors influencing the purchase of life insurance products in India based on demographic characteristics. The study used a survey of 613 life insurance customers across three regions of Uttarakhand, India. Through statistical analysis, the study identified five key factors: product quality and brand image, service quality, customer friendliness, brand loyalty, and commitment. It found that product quality and brand image was the most important factor while brand loyalty was the least. The study also found these factors varied significantly based on age, gender, income, and education demographics.
Here is a brief summary of the key points from "Cleopatra's Guide to Good Governance" by Stacy Schiff:
- Cleopatra VII ruled over the most powerful empire of her time in ancient Egypt. She provides an example of effective leadership through how she wielded and maintained her power.
- Schiff examines Cleopatra's leadership techniques and "secrets" that allowed her to stay in control, such as eliminating potential rivals or threats. A notable example was Cleopatra killing her siblings to solidify her rule.
- Other strategies discussed include surrounding yourself with loyal advisors, presenting yourself as a goddess-figure to command respect, and using charm and seduction as political tools to influence others.
1. considering the information provided in the case study, do you licservernoida
The document discusses Theodore Lowi's concept of "interest group liberalism" which refers to the influence that organized interest groups have in writing and shaping public policy in the United States. It provides Lowi's definition of interest group liberalism as a system that justifies power by avoiding the law and allowing private parties to make public policy. It also discusses how interest group liberalism can impact any policy debate as different interest groups representing business, climate change, human rights, etc. will advocate for different approaches to policies towards China. The role of the government is to consider views from all these competing interest groups to establish a balanced policy.
Is there a secular trend in the public opinion of unions in Canada over timeMark Vanspall
This document analyzes public opinion poll data from 1976-2008 to determine if there is a secular trend in Canadians' opinions of unions. The author uses regression analysis to examine how variables like age, geography, education levels, inflation rates, media coverage, union density, strike activity, and income inequality influence support for unions over time. The results show no clear secular trend but some variables like inflation help explain trends seen in the data, suggesting a potential increasing trend in pro-union views. The author concludes inflation has the biggest impact on shaping opinions about unions in Canada during this period.
A usability evaluation framework for b2 c e commerce websitesAlexander Decker
This document presents a framework for evaluating the usability of B2C e-commerce websites. It involves user testing methods like usability testing and interviews to identify usability problems in areas like navigation, design, purchasing processes, and customer service. The framework specifies goals for the evaluation, determines which website aspects to evaluate, and identifies target users. It then describes collecting data through user testing and analyzing the results to identify usability problems and suggest improvements.
A universal model for managing the marketing executives in nigerian banksAlexander Decker
This document discusses a study that aimed to synthesize motivation theories into a universal model for managing marketing executives in Nigerian banks. The study was guided by Maslow and McGregor's theories. A sample of 303 marketing executives was used. The results showed that managers will be most effective at motivating marketing executives if they consider individual needs and create challenging but attainable goals. The emerged model suggests managers should provide job satisfaction by tailoring assignments to abilities and monitoring performance with feedback. This addresses confusion faced by Nigerian bank managers in determining effective motivation strategies.
This document proposes a theory about the relationship between particularized trust, institutions, generalized trust, and economic wellbeing. It hypothesizes that an increase in particularized trust leads to stronger institutions, which then leads to increased generalized trust and economic prosperity. The document outlines this theory and presents three hypotheses to test the relationships between these variables at both the individual and national levels. It then describes the methodology and analyses that will be used to empirically assess the hypotheses using data from the United States and Italy.
This document summarizes research on the concepts of power and trust. It defines power as the ability to influence or control others' behavior, while trust involves having a firm belief in someone or something's reliability. The document discusses different styles of trust-building, the role of trust networks, and the relationship between political legitimacy, democracy, and trust/distrust. It notes that corruption and an unfair legal system can undermine trust and threaten democracies.
The Mediating Role of Group Cohesion in the Relationship between Interpersona...inventionjournals
The phenomenon of interpersonal trust holds a significant place in management literature and its potential and possibilities gather momentum with every attempt of research and discourse on the topic.This paper attempts to foresee the impact of interpersonal trust on group cohesion and team effectiveness. This study intends to empirically validate the mediating role of group cohesion in the relationship between interpersonal trust and team effectiveness. It is envisaged that this study based on primary data collected from 177 scientists from three nationalized research and development organizations in central Kerala, South India and carried out during the time period of June to September 2016 ,will add to our understanding of the link between interpersonal trust,group cohesion and team effectiveness.Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used to authorize the relationship among the variables. Findings of the study are conferred, together with limitations and suggestions for future research. This empirical study reiterates through its analysis and results that there is significant relationship between interpersonal trust and group cohesion. The study provides a deeper and richer understanding in explaining the relationship between group cohesion and team effectiveness. This study portrays that group cohesion partially intercedes the relationship between Interpersonal trust and team effectiveness
Organized Crime Essay. Abadinsky and Cresseys Definitions of Organized Crime ...Kristina Jenkins
Perception of Organized Crime Essay Example | StudyHippo.com. Organized crime - 380 Words - NerdySeal. Understanding Organized Crime Essay Example | Topics and Well Written .... Crime Essay | Legal Studies - Year 12 HSC | Thinkswap. Crimes Essay Legal Studies 4 - Evaluate the effectiveness of sentencing .... Online Essay Help | amazonia.fiocruz.br.
Political Instution, Public Confidence In, Empirical Articlejcarlson1
This document summarizes three competing interpretations of declining public confidence in the U.S. government: the symbolic change thesis, regime effects thesis, and devolution thesis. It outlines hypotheses derived from each and discusses how the authors will evaluate these hypotheses by analyzing the relationship between government confidence and policy preferences over time, across policy domains, and with respect to Congress and the presidency using General Social Survey data. The analysis aims to advance understanding of declining confidence and its potential role in contemporary policy conflicts and welfare state retrenchment.
Impersonal trust can be developed through institutional mechanisms, social categories, roles, and norms even without direct personal contact. In virtual organizations, sources of impersonal trust include third-party reputation systems, standards for secure communication, and identification with a collective group. The sources provide indirect information about trustworthiness to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange when interpersonal relationships are difficult to form due to geographic distance and lack of personal experience online. Impersonal and interpersonal trust are complementary and interdependent, with impersonal forms grounded in interpersonal expectations and values over time.
The world bank policy research working paper _ dr malik khalid mehmood ph_dMalik Khalid Mehmood
This paper examines how donor and non-state actor service provision can potentially undermine or strengthen citizens' legitimating beliefs towards their government. It hypothesizes that service provision by outside actors could weaken citizens' willingness to comply with government if they credit the outside actors rather than the government. However, service provision could also strengthen legitimating beliefs if citizens see the government as essential in coordinating these outside resources. The paper uses Afrobarometer survey data from 19 African countries to assess these competing hypotheses, finding that service provision by outside actors seems to strengthen rather than undermine citizens' relationship with the state.
This document presents a formal analysis of patronage politics. It begins with an overview of patron-client relationships and how they have been used across various societies and political systems. It then presents a formal model to analyze patronage politics, focusing on political competition between two parties when one is the incumbent party that can allocate public resources toward public goods or patronage. The model considers how parties choose political platforms, and how citizens choose which party to support based on ideology, public goods provision, and patronage benefits. The analysis seeks to explain the existence and resilience of patronage in different contexts.
This document presents a formal analysis of patronage politics. It discusses how patronage has been used across many different societies and time periods. While new democracies were expected to reduce corrupt political behaviors, patronage has persisted in many cases. The paper develops a formal model to analyze how patronage is determined by political competition between parties and the relevance of different citizen groups, rather than just costs of co-opting citizens. It aims to clarify contradictions in how patronage exists in both developed and developing democracies.
This document presents a formal analysis of patronage politics. It discusses how patronage has been used across many different societies and time periods. While new democracies were expected to reduce patronage and corruption, in many cases patronage has persisted. The paper develops a formal model to analyze how patronage is determined by political competition between parties and the relative importance of citizen groups, rather than just costs of co-opting citizens. It aims to clarify contradictions in how patronage exists in both developed and developing democracies.
This document summarizes academic literature on trust and its relationship to performance. It defines trust as an expectation of competence, honesty and goodwill. Trust is important when there is risk and lack of control. The document discusses how interpersonal and inter-organizational trust can positively impact performance by easing negotiations and reducing conflict. It also examines how trust within teams can improve cooperation and knowledge sharing, leading to better performance. The document uses a New Year's Eve party case study to analyze how trust was important for its success with little investment.
This document summarizes research on the effect of government funding on nonprofit administrative efficiency. Some research finds that government funding can increase nonprofit administrative costs through increased bureaucracy, professionalization, and compliance requirements. However, other research finds government funding can also improve efficiency by allowing nonprofits to achieve scale. This paper aims to empirically test the relationship between public funding and nonprofit efficiency using a longitudinal dataset of nonprofit organizations.
1. This document outlines a research study that analyzes levels of trust in the Korean and US governments using social media data. It describes collecting data from news articles, tweets, and forum comments/replies from both countries between 1995-2015.
2. The study aims to compare expressions of trust in the two governments across different media and over time. It expands the scope of trust-related words beyond direct terms like "trust" and analyzes topics related to government ability, benevolence, and integrity.
3. Preliminary results found differences in how each country discusses their government. Koreans referred more emotionally to specific issues/leaders, while Americans expressed more objective political opinions collectively. The study will continue with
1) Trust develops in virtual communities through impersonal forms that rely on social categories and expectations of reciprocity, which allows for the development of "thin trust" or swift trust.
2) Over time, as interactions are repeated, trust can evolve into more interpersonal forms based on direct knowledge of other community members, their self-disclosure, and shared experiences.
3) However, the development of trust in a virtual community depends on factors like the community's purpose and the nature of interactions, which may allow trust to be based more on impersonal forms like trust in the community itself rather than interpersonal trust between members.
The Wisdom of Some Do We Always Need HighConsensus to Shape.docxpelise1
The Wisdom of Some: Do We Always Need High
Consensus to Shape Consumer Behavior?
Michael R. Sciandra, Cait Lamberton, and
Rebecca Walker Reczek
From the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to prompt healthier eating to the Environmental Protection
Agency’s desire to prompt people to engage in environmentally friendly behaviors, a wide range of policy
makers aim to persuade consumers. To do so, they must decide how and whether to use information about
the behavior of other consumers as part of their persuasive message. In four experimental studies, the
authors demonstrate that the persuasive advantage of high- versus low-consensus information depends
on the target consumer’s trait level of susceptibility to interpersonal influence (SII). Low-SII consumers
differentiate between low- and high-consensus information, such that they are more persuaded by
high-consensus information. In contrast, high-SII consumers find any cue about the behavior of others
persuasive, regardless of whether it is high or low consensus. Importantly, this finding suggests that policy
makers may find success motivating behavioral change even in low-consensus situations. The authors close
by reporting data from two broadscale correlational surveys that identify behavioral, psychographic, and
demographic characteristics related to consumer SII as well as domains in which low consensus currently
exists, so that policy makers can identify and target these individuals and related issues.
Keywords: persuasion, susceptibility to interpersonal influence, social norms marketing, consensus, social proof
P
olicy makers often want to persuade people to change
their thoughts and behaviors. For example, politicians
frequently stump for votes, advocate for change, and seek
support for new policies or legislation. Similarly, state and local
governmental agencies and nonprofit nongovernmental orga-
nizations (NGOs) continually encourage consumers to engage
in a multitude of desirable behaviors, including eating healthy
foods, staying physically active, recycling, and conserving en-
ergy. As such, policy makers frequently employ persuasive
messages designed to encourage specific behaviors. For ex-
ample, in May 2015, New York City launched a campaign de-
signed to reduce consumer waste and generated awareness
through persuasive messages on buses and subways and in
digital communications (Gerlat 2015).
Prior research in psychology and marketing has indicated that
the success of such persuasive messages is largely contingent on
two factors: (1) the credibility of the message source (i.e., the
policy maker or organization; Petty and Briñol 2008) and (2) the
strength or quality of the message argument (i.e., how strong
a case is made for the advocated attitude or behavior; Petty and
Cacioppo 1984). In general, most policy makers are endowed
with source credibility by virtue of political power (in the case of
elected officials), legal authority (e.g., state and local govern-
ment age.
Comparing Public and Private Organizations-Empirical Research and teh Power o...Muhelwan Muhelwan
This article summarizes and assesses over two decades of empirical research comparing public and private organizations in areas such as goal complexity, organizational structure, personnel processes, and work attitudes. The research both supports and refutes conventional assumptions about differences between public and private organizations. For example, while public organizations are assumed to have more complex goals, public managers do not report higher goal complexity than private managers. Similarly, while public organizations are assumed to have more rules, public and private managers report similar levels of formalization. The research converges in some ways but also presents anomalies, supporting the need for continued empirical examination of the public-private distinction.
Demographic analysis of factors influencing purchase of life insurance produc...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study that examined factors influencing the purchase of life insurance products in India based on demographic characteristics. The study used a survey of 613 life insurance customers across three regions of Uttarakhand, India. Through statistical analysis, the study identified five key factors: product quality and brand image, service quality, customer friendliness, brand loyalty, and commitment. It found that product quality and brand image was the most important factor while brand loyalty was the least. The study also found these factors varied significantly based on age, gender, income, and education demographics.
Here is a brief summary of the key points from "Cleopatra's Guide to Good Governance" by Stacy Schiff:
- Cleopatra VII ruled over the most powerful empire of her time in ancient Egypt. She provides an example of effective leadership through how she wielded and maintained her power.
- Schiff examines Cleopatra's leadership techniques and "secrets" that allowed her to stay in control, such as eliminating potential rivals or threats. A notable example was Cleopatra killing her siblings to solidify her rule.
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Removal of Subsidy: a Question of Trust
Balogun, Joseph Babalola
Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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Abstract
The paper demonstrates that the fierce opposition to the economic policy of removal of oil subsidy is largely
explicable in terms of the Nigerian masses’ loss of trust in the government’s competence and supposed goodwill.
This general distrust in government, it is analytically argued, is a product of the masses’ accumulatedunpleasant
experience of incessant battering in the hands of past governments. It is suggested that for the current government to
restore the lost trust and consequently win back the cooperation of the Nigerian people, there is need for it to fulfill
most, if not all, of its promises to the masses, especially those associated with the newly implemented increment in
the price of petrol.This impliesdeviating from the ill-standard (of promise and fail) set by the preceding
administrations. Such move must be prefaced by the government’s showing real commitment to the plights of its
subjects by cutting down on the profligate lifestyle of its officials to reflect genuineness of purpose and strong will
for positive change.
Keywords: oil subsidy, trust, government, masses, Nigeria.
1. Introduction
Nigerians woke up on the first day of the year 2012 to have the shocking newsthat the subsidy on petrol
commodity had been removed. This removal implies that a litre of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as
petrol, hitherto sold for N65wouldthenceforth be sold for N141. Although after much ferocious agitation from the
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the civil society organizations, the price was
later reviewed, putting the new price at N97/litre, the upward change in price of petrol has continued to generate
diverse opinions from both Nigerians and concerned outsiders.It is the contention of the present paper that all the
outrages generated by this action of the government are sufficiently explicable in terms of lack of trust relationship
between the state and the masses. It is argued that if the state had demonstrated trustworthiness in its duties, the
policy of removal of fuel subsidy would have received less resistance from the public in whose interest the former
claims to have initiated it.
The paper, beside its introduction, is distributed along four sections. The first section examines the nature of
the concept of trust, especially political trust.This allows us to reveal the significance of the concept in people-
government relationship. In the second stratum of the paper, attempts are made at exploring the two levels of
understanding of the upward review in the price of petrolproduct, namely, removal of fuel subsidy and increment in
the pump price of petrol. It is argued that while government favours the former for the obvious reason of justifying
its implementation of the policy, the masses prefer the latter for the fact that they bear the direct and practical
consequences of the policy. The third section provides justification for the masses’ distrust/doubt in government over
the success of the policy of removal of subsidy, while the last section, the conclusion, suggests ways through which
government can reclaim its trust from the people.
2. Conceptualizing Trust
Several attempts have been made to define the concept of trust by philosophers and socio-political theorists
(Held, 1984; Tway, 1993; Blind, 2006). It hardly needs be said that these attempts are not of equal academic worth.
As defined in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2000:1284), trust is the belief that somebody or something
is good, sincere, honest, etc. and will not try to harm or deceive you. According to Encarta Dictionaries (2009), to
trust implies to have confidence in and reliance on good qualities, especially fairness, truth, honour or ability. In
these senses, trust is a disposition (Held, 1984). It is a relational state of mind of one to another, whose integrity one
can count on and, whose future behaviour one can predict to agree, with a fair degree of accuracy, to a predetermined
expectation. Hence, in Wheeless and Grotz's (1977:251) estimation, “trust occurs when parties holding certain
favourable perceptions of each other allow this relationship to reach the expected outcomes.”
Before further clarifications are made, there is need to stress that the concept of trust, like democracy,
comes in cluster of other defining concepts. It is in properly grasping the meaning of these other concepts that one
can understand trust as a concept. These concepts are, but not limited to,confidence, integrity and
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credibility.Although some use the terms confidence and trust interchangeably, other scholarshave seen a significant
distinction between the two related concepts, associating the former with a passive emotion accorded to the overall
socio-political system, and conceptualizing the latter as a group of more dynamic beliefs and commitments accorded
to people (Blind, 2006). Confidence is the belief in somebody, something or an institution; or in the ability of
somebody, something or an institution to act in a proper, trustworthy or reliable manner.
Integrity, on its own part, means the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles,
not compromising one’s moral standard, even in the face of compelling reasons to do so. The best historical
demonstration of the quality of integrity can be found in the Socrates’ heroic refusal to yield to the plot of his
sympathizers to rescue him from the Athenian prison, for according to him, if the law which had hitherto protected
him now demanded for his life, then so be it.This has justified the description of Socrates as the most morally upright
person that ever lived.
While integrity expresses moral firmness, credibility is the ability to inspire belief in others. It is the quality
that leads to the feeling of trustworthiness. Credibility, as defined by Blinders (2000:1431), is “living up to its
words.” To be credible is to have shown in the past that one is dependable, or that one can be counted upon. In
political terms, credibility can be defined as an unquestioned criterion of a good policy (Blind, 2006:4). A credible
government, for instance, is one that has consistently demonstrated a constant act of goodwill toward its subjects. In
doing this, such government naturally builds in its people a tendency to believe in its good intentions and thus
willingness for cooperation. In this regard, credibility becomes directly related to the notion of political trust because
if a government agency makes policies that consistently produce successful results, trust develops over time. On the
contrary, if a government agency produces policies that repeatedly lack credibility, distrust ensues, and is likely to
persist (Blind, 2006).
Having defined it as the state of readiness for unguarded interaction with someone or something, Duane
Tway (1993) goes further to describe trust as a construct; a construct because it is “constructed” of three major
components: the capacity for trusting, the perception of competence and the perception of intention. The first of the
components refers to one’s total life experiences, which have consequently developed one’s current capacity and
willingness to risk trusting others. This implies a predisposition to certain historical antecedent that makes trusting
other not only possible, but also easy. The perception of competence is made up of one’s ability and that of others
with which one relates to perform competently at whatever is needed in one’s current situation. The last one, the
perception of intentions, is one’s perception that the actions, words, direction, mission, or decisions are motivated by
mutually-serving rather than self-serving motives (Tway, 1993).
Trust is of two major variants (Blind, 2006:3).These are political and social trust. Simply defined, social
trust is the trust that exists between citizens.According to Newton and Norris (2000:153), political trust is a central
indicator of public’s underlying feeling about its polity. Political trust occurs when citizens appraise the government
and its institutions, policy-making in general and/or the individual political leaders as promise-keeping, efficient, fair
and honest (Blind, 1993:3-4). Put in other words, it is the judgment of the citizenry that the system and the political
incumbents are responsive, and will do what is right even in the absence of constant scrutiny (Miller and Listhaugi,
1990:358). In the political sphere, trust is rooted in the assurance of the citizens in the ability of their government to
make their life better (than it meets it) through promulgation of masses-friendly policies and programmes.
Trust, especially political trust, thrives in the atmosphere of mutual confidence between rulers and the ruled.
It is the confidence of the citizens that those entrusted with political powers will do things they are voted or
appointed to positions to do, and eschew things not expected of them. Normally, the phrases "expected of them" and
"not expected of them" are couched in terms which denote making policies that will enhance the lives of the masses
or promote the general welfare of the citizenry, on the one hand, and avoiding those not leading to that end, on the
other. The purpose for establishing the institution of government is the realization of the happiness of the citizens.
Hence, any government found wanting in this regard is adjudged not worthy of the trust and cooperation of those
over whom it is a government.
3. Removal of Subsidy or Pump Price Hike?
A very crucial issue to be attended to at this juncture has to do with the proper nomenclature to be denoted by
the much-publicized upward movement in the petrol pump price. This is pertinent to put the ongoing debate about
the newly-intended fuel price in its proper perspectives. Is it to be conceptualized as the so-called removal of oil
subsidy or simply a hike in the petrol price? It is important that one provides a satisfactory answer to this question
mainly for at least three mutually related reasons. In the first place, such answer helps to understand the nature of the
movement and perhaps the reason why it takes the direction it does. Two, in knowing the proper term to be used for
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this upward movement in pump price, one begins to understand arguments for and against the movement; arguments
which have now assumed pro-government and anti-government dimensions. And finally, determining the right name
for this movement reveals the reason why it meets with so much antagonism from the majority of Nigerians.
Removal of subsidy sounds good and reasonable enough from the government point of view, especially as an
explanatory alibi for implementing an economic policy, which, in most people’s opinion, is considered the most anti-
masses in the history of the country. There are a couple of reasons, however, why the employment of the term cannot
be considered helpful in understanding the phenomenon of upward movement in the price of petrol.
In the first place, the working terminology (i.e. removal of subsidy) is couched in a technical economic
language that is hardly understood by the Nigerian masses majority of whom are stack illiterates. The undeserved
popularity of the term in recent media literature notwithstanding, the phrase ‘removal of subsidy’ has remained
largely incomprehensible to a significant bulk of the Nigerian populace. This is because all attempts at explaining it
by government spokespersons, including the Hon. Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. DiazeniAlison-Madueke,
Hon.Minister of Finance, Dr. NgoziOkonjo-Iweala and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN),SanusiLamidoSanusi, have been expressed in economic jargons that take expertise in international economics
to understand. A good policy should be rendered in a language that could be easily understood by the generality of
people for whom it is made. This helps to foster the culture of clarity/sincerity of purpose and promotes
accountability in government.
In spite of the complexity inherent in the idea of removal of oil subsidy, at least from the point of view of the
ordinary Nigerians, the government seems to have chosen the term for obvious reasons. These include the fact that it
makes easy the task of explaining the nature of corruption that has marred the petroleum sector, which has not only
actually made the payment of oil subsidy burdensome to the government, but also has called for its urgent removal.
As the argument goes, the removal of oil subsidy will curb the fraudulent actsbeing perpetrated by some shady oil
dealers, derogatorily referred to as cabals, who allegedly are the sole beneficiaries of the subsidy on petroleum
product.Ben Oguntuase (2012) identifies three of such market malpractices. We shall here be contented with two of
them for the purpose of the present discussion.
The first is fraudulent payment on phony import of Petroleum Motor Spirit, PMS. The product is
fraudulently certified as imported into Nigeria but is actually diverted to other countries in West
Africa….They not only collect the subsidy (which actually is outright theft), they also connive to
collect demurrage on products that really never entered the Nigerian market. The reality is that what
we actually consume in Nigeria may not be up to half of what the records or statistics say we
consume.
There was also bridging the system whereby products are moved by road across depots as may be
permitted in what was meant to be exceptional cases such as when repair is being carried out on the
pipeline or at a depot. Over time and driven by fraudulent intent, what was designed to augment
became the routine practice. Products would be released from Atlas Cove in Lagos ostensibly for
bridging to say Kano or Sokoto but would actually be sold at nearby stations while the
documentation is perfected and bridging allowance is paid.
In pointing out these anomalies in the oil industry, the government intends to bring to the fore the moral
justification for the removal of the subsidy by demonstrating that the existence of the government’s assistance in the
price of fuel makes possible the diversion of its benefits away from those for which it is originally intended, i.e. the
Nigerian masses. Thus the removal of subsidy on petrol protects the masses against the onslaught of a group of few
super-rich businessmen who use smart means to enrich themselves at the costly detriment of the majority of the
Nigerian populace.
Government thus sees in the phrase ‘removal of subsidy’ the best escapist argument to shift the blame of
high ineptitude in handling economic matters, to some alleged scape-goats, the so-called cabals, who now bear the
burden of evidence against them.The new victims, the cabals, now become the new enemies of the masses, the
saboteurs of the government’s efforts to make easy life affordable to all and sundry, and the reason why the removal
of subsidy on petrol becomes expedient. Now government, by this shift (of blame),aims at achieving at least two
ends. One, it intends to show to the Nigerian public that it means well, and not ill, for the masses by removing
subsidy from petrol, thus portraying government as benevolent rather than malevolent. Two, the shift helps to
intensify pressure from the Nigerian public to expose those behind the evil act of cabalism, the eradication of which
leads the government to the best option of the removal of oil subsidy.
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Whereas to a large extent, government has achieved the second objective, it is doubtful if same could be
said of the first. The reason for this is not far-fetched. Majority of Nigerians judge government policies by their
physical manifestations in their immediate environment. And when such manifestations are not favourable to their
living condition, they feel no hesitation labeling the policy in question a negative one. This is exactly the case with
the removal of oil subsidy.
It should be stressed that to the average Nigerian, removal of fuel subsidy is a hike in the price of petrol.
Referring to it as removal of fuel subsidy, or as anything for that matter, is what the late FelaAnikulapoKuti would
describe as Government Magic, a trick of turning white to black. It is in a nutshell the government’s way of sugar-
coating the bitter pill of pump price increase to ease its swallowing by the Nigerian masses. As William Shakespeare
(2000) once remarked, that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. By the same token, that
which is an increment in price, by any name, will stink as filthy!
There isanother reason why the ordinary Nigerians prefer ‘pump price increase’ to any alternative
terminology. It is easier to understand. This might be because such phrase describes the reality of the new price.
Being largely illiterate, the Nigerian masses judge by sight and not by (what they read in) books (e.g. newspapers,
magazines, news bulletins, textbooks, etc.). Although mostly unread, they are aware of the goings-on in their
environment. They know the new price of the product. They know what the price used to be. Simple arithmetic has a
way of telling them that the difference between the old price and the new one implies an increment. If experience
still counts as the best teacher, then it becomes sheer waste of time and energy to start preaching the gospel of
removal of fuel subsidy to a group of people whom experience has taught that whenever there is a change in the price
of petrol commodity, it always is in the upward direction.
On a general note, therefore, whether it is called removal of oil subsidy, or increase in pump price, the
reality of the new pump price of petrol product puts the Nigerian masses at the receiving end. It goes without saying
that in all of these it is the poor masses that are the real victims (Akor, 2012). This is partly because each time the
price of fuel rises, the price of every other thing jumps up correspondingly. The most affected areas include
transportation, food commodities and security for human life, among others. Besides, the negative effects of such
hike in the price of fuel on petty businesses and artisanship (of course, this is the territory of the poor, and can hardly
survive in Nigeria without generator!) can only be imagined. It is in these terms that the poor masses understand the
new policy of the government.
As would have been expected from a responsible and responsive government, one would have thought that
the removal of fuel subsidy would come with a new salary structure, which gives a corresponding financial power to
the grumbling cadre below, so as to enable them cope with the untold hardship that awaits them in every direction
they turn – from their landlords, market women and men, taxi and bus drivers, etc. If the meager remuneration of the
class cynically referred to as minimum wage earners is considered pathetic, the condition of those with no wage at all
is even much graver. These are the people, who exist far below, and are untouched by, the much controversial
minimum wage: the peasant scratching out a living in the deteriorating rural environment, the petty trader with all his
wares on his head, the beggar under the fly-over and millions and millions that you cannot categorize (Achebe,
1983:24).
These are the real victims of our callous system, the wretched of the earth. They are largely silent
and invisible. They don’t appear on front pages; they do not initiate industrial actions. They drink
bad water and suffer from all kinds of preventable diseases. There are no hospitals within reach of
them; but even if there were they couldn’t afford to attend. There may be a school of sorts which
their children go to when there is “free education”and withdraw from when “levies” are demanded
(Achebe, ibid).
The proposed palliative measures aimed at cushioning the contrived effects of the sudden increment by the
government are equally considered a worthless massaging of the problem. The dictionary meaning of palliative is
enlightening enough:alleviating pain and symptoms without eliminating the cause (Encarta, 2009). Such definition
reveals the Nigerian government’sinsensitivity towards the plight of the common man. Consider the 1100 buses
acquired for the purpose of the palliative programme. One may argue that it is a good gesture and a thoughtful one
on the part of the government. The futility of this gesture, however, begins to surface when one considers the
insignificance of 1100 buses in a country with a population of more than 167million people (NPC, 2011). It should
be noted that with the bad condition of road network in the country, the action is indeed a drop in the ocean.
Government may as well have to acquire thousands of cars, hundreds of thousand okadas (Nigerian slang for
commercial motorcycles), andtens of thousands of kekenapep(Nigeria commercial tricycles) to complete its kind
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gesture of palliative. This will be required to make people from rural and interior areas of the country to have a taste
of their government’s magnanimity.
It is worthy of note that beside the palliatives, the government has promised to spend the realized money
from the removal of subsidy judiciously. These include the proposed improvement in infrastructural facilities,
provision of affordable healthcare services and employment for the teaming youths, fixing of Nigerian electricity
problems, building of more refineries, construction of more roads, etc. Such a good intension from a concerned
government, one might be tempted to conclude. In spite of this long to-do list of the government, the Nigerian
citizens seem to have had their mind made up on not falling for it. By this singular act, the cheated and robbed
Nigerian masses show that they have outgrown their rulers and this was the reason no one was convinced by the
many desperate antics the regime employed to force an unpopular policy, grown and luxuriated in corruption, down
the throats of groaning Nigerians (Oparah, 2012). No promise made by the government falls on the fertile ground of
their heart anymore. But how does one account for this general distrust among the masses? The next section is an
attempt to answer this question.
4. Grounds for the Masses’ Distrust
Citizens of different countries mistrust their governments for varied reasons. In the case of Nigeria, the
citizens, especially the teaming masses, which constitute the larger half of the population, have learnt not to trust
their government from experience. The citizens’ loss of confidence in government can be substantiated with certain
concrete historical examples.The Nigerian economic history is replete with failed attempts by government to put
things right, and consequently bettering the lives of the citizens.The Structural AdjustmentProgramme (SAP)
introduced by the military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida is a very good point in view. The policy, which was
meant for a total economic revitalization ended up plunging the Nigerian masses into unimaginable depth of
miserable penury. For instance, one of the measures taken in realizing this economic agendum was the withdrawal of
subsidy on fuel and fertilizer. This worsened the Nigerian living condition significantly. Anyanwu (1992:11)
captures the inimical effects of the reduction or withdrawal of subsidies on these commodities.
Such oil subsidy withdrawals have fuelled the inflationary spiral in the country. Apart from the
general and persistent increases in the prices of goods, transport fares have skyrocketed resulting in
lower living standards and an increase in the suffering of commuters, while hunger and starvation are
ravaging, given that families spend about 50% of their meager incomes (where they are employed at
all) on fuel or wood and charcoal (Anyanwu, 1987c, 1990a). In addition, subsidies on fertilizer
(NPK, Urea, and SSP) were reduced in both 1989 and 1990, resulting in higher farm production
costs, lower output and higher prices of foodstuffs. Such a policy is contradictory for an
administration that said to be committed to increased agricultural production as well as committed to
increase 'non-inflationary growth'.
Having been battered by the series of infamous military juntas for those bleak years of the Nigerian history,
the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999 came with its hopes and aspirations from Nigerians and their outside
sympathizers. Since Nigeria’s return to democratic governance, however, nothing in the lives of the Nigerian people
seems to have reflected this ‘positive’ change. In fact, the quality of life of Nigerians has been declining depressingly
with successive civilian administrations, and the world is gradually giving up on the capacity of the Nigerian state to
take care of its citizens (Ezeanah and Onyeacholem, 2012).The situation has deteriorated to a stage where Nigerians
have become frustrated, fed up and unreceptive to government’s policies, however morally cogent they are.
During the eight years of President OlusegunObasanjo (1999-2007), the price of petroleum products was
increased about five times. Each time this happened, the Nigerian government, represented by the president and other
public officers, employed several discourse strategies at their disposal to persuade the Nigerian public that it meant
well (Salami and Ayoola, 2010:43). On each of these occasions, however, it is the Nigerian people (with the
exception of those in control of the resources) that bear the brunt. This is because each of these increases in the petrol
pump price bears a slash in the quality of lives of the average Nigerian. In all of these cases, what was intended to
bring economic succor to the country ended up as woes to it.
This does not imply that the Nigerian masses do not challenge this increment, but their economic condition
puts them at a disadvantaged position to fight it to a logical conclusion. As Salami and Ayoola(2010:43) have rightly
observed,
The people, on the other hand, usually challenged the position of the government through media
publications and public demonstrations. A few Nigerians especially commercial vehicle operators
continued to buy, albeit grudgingly, at the new price with the expectation that the ongoing campaign
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against the new price would make the government reverse its decision. The government allowed the
debate to drag on for a while until most members of the public got used to the new price. Then peace
and quiet returned and it would seem that the government had won the 'war'.
Thus the Nigerian people have not only become used to it, but it has also formed the basis of their distrust for
government’s credibility. A Chinese proverb has said it all: fool me once, shame on you; fool me again, shame on
me! The Nigerian electorate by now should have sunk deep into the ground under the sheer weight of its electoral
shame; for it has allowed itself to be fooled not twice but twice-two hundred times! (Achebe, 1983:52) The Minister
of Finance and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. NgoziOkonjo-Iweala, in an interview on the Federal
Radio Corporation of Nigeria’s current affair programme, Radiolinks, admitted that Nigerians don’t trust the
government because of the failure of successive administrations to fulfill their promises to the people (Sunday
Punch, on January 8, 2012).This point has received corroboration from a Lagos-based lawyer and human right
activist, Femi Falana (quoted in Nnodim, 2012).
… we have lost trust because what we are hearing now that the government intends to do with the
funds from subsidy removal is not new. We have been told the same thing in the past. What is the
guarantee that we will not hear the same thing after the deregulation of the downstream sector? Build
refineries, maintain the ones you have and let us see for ourselves what government has done in
terms of development, instead of trying to remove subsidy. After that, you can then come in April to
discuss subsidy and I think people will be ready to listen to your arguments then.
A personality like the Edo State governor, Comr. Adams Oshiomhole, has further confirmed the masses’
ground for distrust in government as profound. As the erstwhile labour leader, Oshiomhole spent his entire labour
presidency years leading campaigns and industrial actions against the Obasanjo government’s planned deregulation
of the downstream sector and increase in the pump price of PMS (Akor, 2012). He got so popular in the process that
he won governorship election in Edo State. Now that he is on the side of government, he has suddenly made a volte
face, and in the forefront leading the campaign for the removal of subsidy on petrol, a policy he once fought
vigorously. He has lost public trust in the process.
It should be added that this duplicity is not restricted to Nigerian leaders alone. The case of John Attah Mills
of Ghana validates this claim. Prior to his emergence as Ghanaian president in 2008, Mills had been a virulent critic
of removal of subsidy preached by Kuffor-led administration. In fact, he is said to have ridden on the popularity he
garnered from this criticism to the presidency of that West African country. Then Ghana was not an oil producing
state. Now as the head of state in an era when Ghana has joined the league of oil producing states, President Attah
Mills’ administration has since cut down the fuel subsidy, setting the new price of the essential commodity atan
obnoxious price of N186/litre. Reminded of his criticism of his predecessor on the same matter, he quickly recanted
sayinghe now understands that it is a necessary and right action to take (Akor, 2012).
This way, the masses have lost confidence in any figure interested in political office, for in their
opinion,they are all the same. This explains why there are so much electioneering irregularities within the Nigerian
electoral system. All the corrupt practices associated with elections in Nigeria can be adequately accounted for in
terms of the masses trying to get their own share of the ‘national cake’(so they call it) before the intending members
of the political class getelected into positions of power, and the access to this cake is shot behind them.For they (the
masses) know that when they eventually emerge as winners of their respective political offices, they become
different persons, and the opportunity to benefit from them is lost, except for when seeking re-election.
5. Conclusion
As things stand now, there seems to be no two ways of preventing the future from being a mere rehash of
the past, except if the present government deviates from the prevalent political rule set by its predecessors. The past
governments were characterized by promise-and-fail approach aimed at soliciting the masses’ acceptance of policies,
and thereafter, turning around to bite them. For as long as this trend continues, the masses are bound to remain in
their distrustful attitude towards government. Meanwhile, it is the country that suffers. To forestall this, there is need
for government to win back its moral virtue of trustworthiness, which previous governments lacked.
Trust thrives in an environment where there is willingness to respect and to rely on another person(s) or
institution. It is based on mutual respect. According to Virginia Held (1984:63),
Persons who trust one another agree somehow not to take advantage of each another, not to
advance their interests at the expense of the other’s interests. As trust develops they are able to act
cooperatively towards one another, to work together and not in competition with one another. Or,
if they compete, they cooperate at higher level in “playing by the rule” if the rules are fair. And
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they trust each other to respect the rules they have voluntarily agreed to and not to cheat or bend
them to their own advantage. Persons who trust one another count on each other to keep their
agreements, if agreements are made. A relation of trust is, then, a mutual willingness to cooperate.
The willingness to act cooperatively is a joint venture between the government and the people. In achieving
this feat, both government and people should have the moral responsibility to cut down on their excesses.The
timeless admonition of the English philosopher, David Hume (quoted in Held, 1984:63), is apposite here:
If there are two of us in a rowboat, and if I want the boat to go and you want the boat to go, and if the
boat will go only if both of us row, then I will take an oar and row, and you will take an oar and row,
and together we will make the boat move through the water.
If the masses have agreed to pay through their nose for the wealth of the nation (given the reduction or withdrawal
of fuel subsidy), the government on their own part should also be willing to cut down on the profligate lifestyle of its
officials. The current budgetary allocation to the political class does not reflect government’s willingness in this
aspect. A budget in which the President and his Vice are to spend a large sum of N2.8bn “maintaining” their existing
furniture, generator, etc. and N238m on fuel is likely to spark off suspicion among citizens.The lives of the Nigerian
political class should reflect the government’s confessed commitment to the cause of truly developing the country.
The hallmark of good political representation and leadership is self-sacrifice. A trustworthy government
should not feast when the people it governs have not eaten; should not sleep when its subjects have not known sleep;
and should not show affluence when its people live in abject poverty. If government removes subsidies from the lives
of the people, it would be morally unjust on its own part to live a highly subsidized life.In any country where such
occurs, there is high tendency for the citizens to become extremely unpatriotic. Thus, that Nigerians are largely
unpatriotic, as noted by Achebe (1983:15), is not because they are particularly evil or wicked, but because patriotism,
being part of an unwritten social contract between a citizen and the state, cannot exist where the state reneges on the
agreement.
The Nigerian citizens are not asking for too much. They want to be treated the same way citizens of other
countries with natural endowments, such as oil and other mineral resources, are being treated by their governments.
They want to enjoy basic social amenities such as stable electricity, portable water, functional telecommunication,
security of lives and property, good health care services, result-oriented educational sector, employment for the
youths and other such welfare packages expected of a responsive and responsible government. And above all, they
want food on their table. It should be noted that past Nigerian governments had failed extensively in these
responsibilities. Political regimes that are unable to supply low-cost food and affordable fuel to the people are seen as
dangerously incompetent as failing to protect the interest of key elements of social order (Dike, 2003; Ogungbemi,
2007).
What the present Nigerian government should focus on, if it must change the people’s existing negative
perception of government’s competence and intended goodwill, is the redemption of the political class through
adequate and timely implementation of all its manifestoes to Nigerians.This seems one of the ways it can restore the
much-needed public trust that the past opportunists in government, those that the late FelaAnikulapoKuti would
readily refer to as “vagabonds in power,” had bastardized beyond repair. The government’s cancellation of the
proposed palliatives on the ground that the public did not allow the full implementation of the subsidy removal has
not shown government as serious about its commitment to the masses’ welfare. Subsidy or no subsidy, government
has a responsibility to take palliative measures to allay economic asperity of the people it is a government over.
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