Inventory of the Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection
Processed by Lyalya Kharitonova.
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Inventory of the Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Lyalya Kharitonova
- Date Completed:
- 2008, revised 2012
- Encoded by:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by David Sun and Microsoft Word file by Elizabeth Phillips.
© 2008 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Title: Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection
Dates: 1978-2004
Collection Number: 2002C79
Collector: Diamond, Larry Jay, collector.
Collection Size:
11 manuscript boxes
(4.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Relates to political, social and economic conditions in Nigeria.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Larry Jay Diamond clippings collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2002.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Biographical/Historical Note
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where
he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy
and serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.
With Abbas Milani, he coordinates the Hoover Institution Project on Democracy in Iran. His research focuses on comparative
trends in the stability of democracy in developing countries and post communist states and on US foreign policy. At Stanford
University, he is a professor by courtesy of political science and sociology.
Diamond has edited or co-edited more than 30 books on democracy, including the recent titles
How People View Democracy, How East Asians View Democracy, Latin America's Struggle for Democracy, Political Change in China:
Comparisons with Taiwan, and Assessing the Quality of Democracy
. Among his other published works are,
Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999),
Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989).
Source: http://www.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/
Scope and Content of Collection
Acquired in 2002, the Larry Jay Diamond collection in the Hoover Institution
Archives includes clippings, correspondence, writings, conference proceedings, and printed matter relating to political, social
and economic conditions before, during, and after Presidential elections in Nigeria in 1983.
Research materials in the papers pertain to Diamond's book
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). There are draft chapters of the book on the floppy disks.
The papers include materials relating to his teaching activities as a Fulbright visiting lecturer at Bayero University Kano
(BUK), Nigeria, from 1982 to 1983, as well as conference proceedings of National United Power Convention (NUPC) in Baghdad
in 2004.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nigeria.
Collection Contents
Box: 1-11
Clippings on Nigerian politics,
1978-1992.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Alhaji Moshood Abiola,
1983
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
Assessments of democracy in Nigeria,
1983
Box/Folder: 1 : 5
Biographies, profiles, and leaders,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 1 : 6
Business and finance,
1990
Box/Folder: 1 : 7-9
Campaign obstruction,
1983
Box/Folder: 1 : 10-12
Campaign pledges and speeches,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 1 : 15
Constitution as political structure,
1983
Box/Folder: 2 : 1-4
Corruption and accountability,
1981-1992
Box/Folder: 2 : 5
Cultural and social problems,
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 2 : 6
Development of class structure,
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 2 : 7
Drug trade, international,
1990
Box/Folder: 2 : 8-10
Economic development,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 2 : 12
Election prospects,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 2 : 13-14
Electoral administration, Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO),
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 3 : 5
First Lady of Nigeria, Better Life Fair,
1990
Box/Folder: 3 : 8
Human rights; justice,
1990
Box/Folder: 3 : 10
International business,
1990
Box/Folder: 3 : 11
International drug trade,
1990
Box/Folder: 3 : 12
Interviews with leaders,
1983
Box/Folder: 3 : 16
Languages, official and spoken,
1990
Box/Folder: 3 : 19-20
Local government,
1983-1990
Box/Folder: 4 : 1-6
Magazine articles,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 4 : 7-9
Military and police,
1990
Box/Folder: 4 : 10
National Assembly,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 5 : 4-7
Nigeria in African press,
1985-1987
Box/Folder: 5 : 8-9
Nigeria in the U.S. press,
1978-1983
Box/Folder: 5 : 10-11
Nigerian External Telecommunications (NET) fire incident,
1983
Box/Folder: 5 : 12
Nigerian political history,
1982-1983
Box: 5 :
Nigerian political parties,
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 5 : 13
Progressive Parties Alliance (PPA),
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 6 : 1-7
National Party of Nigeria (NPN),
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 6 : 8-12
Nigerian People's Party (NPP),
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 6 : 13
Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP),
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 6 : 14-15
People's Redemption Party (PRP),
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 6 : 16
Nigeria Advance Party (NAP),
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 7 : 1-2
Oil and gas, The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
1983-1990
Box/Folder: 7 : 3
Olusegun Obasanjo controversy,
1990
Box/Folder: 7 : 4-5
Opinions on present and future,
1990
Box/Folder: 7 : 6-7
People, class; pictures and cartoons,
1990
Box/Folder: 7 : 10
Political culture,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 7 : 11
Political opinions,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 7 : 12
Political transition problem,
1990
Box/Folder: 7 : 13-15
Politics, parties and politicians,
1982-1991
Box/Folder: 7 : 17
Politics and police,
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 7 : 18-19
Press and media,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 7 : 20
Radical opinions and analyses,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 1
Religion and politics,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 2
Religious violence,
1982-1983
Box: 8-9 :
Sociology of the election campaign,
1979-1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 3
Agricultural and rural development,
1979-1982
Box/Folder: 8 : 4-5
Conduct of election,
1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 6
Education, literacy campaign,
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 8
Election assessment,
1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 11
Election malpractices,
1983
Box/Folder: 8 : 13
Election prospects and expectations,
1983
Box/Folder: 9 : 4-6
Federal Electoral Commission (FEDECO),
1982-1983
Box/Folder: 9 : 7
Gubernatorial election,
1983
Box/Folder: 9 : 8
Future of democracy,
1983
Box/Folder: 9 : 11
President Shehu Shagari second term,
1983
Box/Folder: 9 : 12
Voters registration,
1983
Box/Folder: 9 : 13
Women's role in national development,
1981-1983
Box: 10-11
States government political development,
1981-1983
Box/Folder: 11 : 5
State of the Nation,
1983
Box/Folder: 11 : 6
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP), implementations and effects, economic policies,
1989-1990
Box/Folder: 11 : 10-11
Traditional rulers,
1983-1990
Box/Folder: 11 : 12
Universities admission policies, bank loans,
1989-1990
Box/Folder: 11 : 13
Universities secret cults,
1990
Box: 11
Writings and activities file,
1982-2004.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of research notes, typescripts, materials related to teaching, and conference proceedings.
Box/Folder: 11 : 16
Fulbright Visiting lecturer at Bayero University Kano (BUK), Kano State, Nigeria,
1982-1983.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of correspondence, curriculum vitae, notes, and clippings
Box/Folder: 11 : 17
"For a Free and United Democratic Iraq," National United Power Convention (NUPC), Baghdad,
2004
Scope and Content Note
Consists of posters, program, and other printed material in Arabic and English, and currency (dinars) issued by Central Bank
of Iraq
Box/Folder: 11 : 18
"Nigeria: Understanding the 1983 Elections," typescript,
1983
Box/Folder: 11 : 19
"Interview with Chief Obafemi Awolowo, National Leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria," 1983
Box/Folder: 11 : 22
Six 5.25-inch floppy disks labeled book chapter drafts, correspondence, and research material,
circa 1987
