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Issues in Ghana�s Electoral Politics /

Ghana attained independence in 1957. From 1992, when a new constitution came into force and established a new - democratic - framework for governing the country, elections have been organized every four years to choose the governing elites. The essays in this volume are about those elections because...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ninsin, Kwame Akon, 1938- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Ghana attained independence in 1957. From 1992, when a new constitution came into force and established a new - democratic - framework for governing the country, elections have been organized every four years to choose the governing elites. The essays in this volume are about those elections because elections give meaning to the role of citizens in democratic governance. The chapters depart from the study of formal structures by which the electorate choose their representatives. They evaluate the institutional forms that representation take in the Ghanaian context, and study elections outside the specific institutional forms that according to democratic theory are necessary for arriving at the nature of the relationships that are formed between the voters and their representatives and the nature and quality of their contribution to the democratic process.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9782869787254