Name: Monday Dickson
Section: Comparative Politics
Professional Email: mondaydickson@aksu.edu.ng
Professional Status: Assistant Professor
Institution: Akwa Ibom State University, P.M.B 1167, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
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Paper Title:  Global Economic Crisis and Recession in Nigeria: The Linkages and Consequences
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In 2008, the global economy experienced the most severe crash since the 1930s. The economic downturn took a heavy toll on the economy of both rich and poor countries creating joblessness, wage stagnation and widespread economic insecurity. Soon after the world economy came out of the morass of the decline, recession engulfed the Nigeria State that had for the previous decades experienced sustained growth at unprecedented levels. This article examines the relationship between many of the key issues prevalent during the global economic crisis and recession in Nigeria. The study adopts the descriptive/qualitative research technique and relied essentially on relevant secondary data. Using the Marxian approach to economic crisis as the framework of analysis, the paper probes important questions including: What were the major causes of global economic crisis vis-a-vis recession in Nigeria? What is the relationship between the global economic crisis and recession Nigeria? The study argues that the sharp collapse in global economy left no country on the globe immune to recession owing to deep contradictions inherent in world capitalist system. Findings reveal that recession in Nigeria was a reaction from the global economic crisis which emerged from the basic working of capitalism. Consequently, Nigeria and other developing countries have been increasingly affected by the recession in advanced economies through the consequences of unbalanced trade and financial market channels. While the nation must adjust to the challenges of global capitalism, there is the need to refashion every aspect of the domestic economy towards diversification for self-sufficiency.

Name: Prince Aian Villanueva
Section: Comparative Politics
Professional Email: prince_villanueva@dlsu.edu.ph
Professional Status: Graduate Student
Institution: Doctoral School of Political Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
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Paper Title:  Multiple pathways to corruption: A qualitative comparative analysis of corruption in Central Eastern Europe
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Informed by the literature on democratization and civil society-corruption nexus, the paper is an attempt to describe the conditions through which the civil society (CS) affects control of corruption in Central Eastern Europe. It is argued that through “democratic anchoring” (Morlino, 2011), a process in which the civil society is linked to the new institutions through actions of the intermediate actors, the institutional design and external actors, the anticorruption effects of CS are facilitated. Specifically, the paper argues that the presence/absence of strong and cooperative civil society-political party linkages (parties as intermediate actors), institutionalization of civil society including participation in the anticorruption framework (institutional/constitutional design), and the external actors’ influence (such as the media) condition the CS’s impact on control of corruption in states in CEE. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is used to probe into the above objective.