This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay aims at establishing a statistical relationship between culture and the ease of doing business across countries. Generally, microeconomic models assume that individuals act rationally and will always aim at maximizing uti…
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The ‘Nigerian’ supra-national state was built by British colonialism in West Africa's Niger basin. Its supra-national status derives from its multi-national composition. It attracts the attention of scholars who want to account for its continuing poor political performance. Our …
The determinants of audit fees and report lag: A comparative study of Egypt and the UK Despite the occurrence of recent economic and political events such as the global financial crisis and Arab spring in the Middle East, researchers have not addressed the effects of such events…
What are the main macroeconomic factors that help understand economic growth in Brazil since 1870? Are institutions (and changes in institutions) a deep cause of economic growth in Brazil? Are these effects fundamentally and systematically different? Does the intensity and the d…
A majority of formal theoretic research in political science treats political parties as unitary actors, and endows them with decision-making powers not unlike those of strategic individuals. In contrast, my dissertation examines strategic equilibria which arise when competition…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between ethnic diversity and different forms of political instability in sub-Saharan Africa. The first essay, written with Kimuli Kasara, is a cross-national statistical study of the effect of the sizes of ethnic groups and their c…
The construction of a viable nation-state has been a challenge for most post-colonial nations. Schooling is key part of projects of nation-state making; however, the nuanced, complex and contradictory role of teachers in these projects has rarely been studied. This two-year ethn…
This study reports the crisis in Nigerian institutions of higher education between 1980 and 2002. Both primary and secondary data were collected from various sources to analyze the political climate and its effects on the Nigerian educational system. Data were gathered from alum…
This dissertation explores the correlation between petrostates’ oil revenue fluctuations and political stability or political instability. Petrostates (countries heavily reliant on oil revenues) often maintain domestic stability by using petrodollars to fund social programs and …
The Sudan like many Third World countries encompasses many diverse ethnic communities with deep socio-cultural cleavages. This adds to the susceptibility of the Sudan to internal political instability and has resulted in a bloody civil war that has been raging for forty-two year…