Ghana's elections of 7 December 2016: A post-mortem

Ayee, Joseph R. A.

doi:10.1080/10220461.2017.1378124

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“…However, less than a decade after independence, Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in 1966”, (Bauer and Darkwah, 2022, p. 553). Between 1966 and 1992, Ghana's political landscape was dominated by military regimes, with brief intermissions under civilian regimes (Ayee, 2017; Brierley and Ofosu, 2014; Daddieh, 2009; Bauer and Darkwah, 2022; Kumah-Abiwu and Abidde, 2022).…”

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Predictors of citizens' trust in public leadership in Ghana: a comparison between the president, MPs and MMDCEs

Dzordzormenyoh

2023

IJPL

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PurposeThis study was designed to assess the predictors of citizens' trust in public leaders in Ghana. Specifically, it assesses the effect of eight trust variables—competence/ability, integrity, communication, benevolence, political/quality of governance, rational/economic, risk-taking and socio-demographic characteristics—on citizens' trust in public leaders—the president, members of parliament (MPs) and metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs)—in Ghana from 2016 to 2018.Design/methodology/approachSummary statistics, bivariate correlation and binary logistic regression were employed to analyze 2,400 responses of Ghanaians obtained from the Afro-Barometer round seven surveys on Ghana (2016–2018).FindingsThe results reveal that competence/ability, that is to say, the performance of the president, MPs and MMDCEs, influence citizens' trust in these leaders. Furthermore, communication, benevolence, rationality, risk-taking and socio-demographic variables were significant predictors of citizens' trust in the president. Likewise, competence/ability, communication, politics, benevolence and socio-demographic variables were predictors of citizens' trust in MPs. Additionally, competence/ability, communication, integrity, politics, benevolence and socio-demographic variables influence citizens' trust in MMDCEs. In short, the rationality and risk-taking variables only influence trust in the president, while the political variables influence trust in MPs and MMDCEs. However, integrity influences trust in MMDCEs. Future studies can investigate the factors that account for these differences to augment the current literature.Originality/valueThis article is unique because it examines and compares citizens' trust in three categories of public leaders—the president, MPs and MMDCEs—in Ghana using nationally representative data.

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Predictors of citizens' trust in public leadership in Ghana: a comparison between the president, MPs and MMDCEs

Dzordzormenyoh

2023

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“…This election again corresponded with the parliamentary elections. The NPP had 169 majority seats and the NDC had 106 seats out of 275 available seats (Ayee, 2017). It is important to note that 2016 parliamentary results did not feature any other party or independent candidate.…”

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Party’s presidential primaries and the consolidation of democracy in Ghana’s 4th Republic

Addae

2021

Cogent Social Sciences

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Democracy under any system of rule is associated with vibrant political parties and credible elections. Both are indispensable in a representative democracy. The good conduct of elections within a political party promotes and consolidates democracy. Political parties in Ghana have suffered internal conflict resulting in factions, break-away, and the formation of new parties because of undemocratic party operations especially in the conduct of primaries. This act threatens the country's attempt to consolidate its democracy. Internal party reforms are adopted to ensure democratic practices and operations. The reforms include widening the electoral base of the party in the selection of candidates, simultaneous conduction of polls across constituencies, and restriction of candidates eligible for elections. These reforms are to reduce vote-buying, intimidation, physical assault, and fierce competition to enhance legitimisation of election results and the acceptability of candidates. The paper assessed how the various reforms adopted by the two major political parties in Ghana have influenced and legitimised the conduct of presidential primaries. The paper adopted a qualitative research design through interviews and reviewed extant literature to set the theoretical basis of the study. It is realised ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Amoako Addae is an Mphil candidate at the University of Ghana, Legon with the Department of Political Science. He holds a Bachelor in Arts (BA) degree from the same University. His research interest covers elections, governance, democracy, gender and national development. This paper was based on the author's research in shaping and contributing to effective party politics in Ghana. The work examines how political parties can contribute to the consolidation of democracy in Ghana.

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“…In 2000, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ceded political power to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in 2008, the NPP lost power to the NDC and in 2016, the NDC with its presidential candidate being the incumbent president losing to the NPP (Gyampoh et al, 2017). Based on these, Ghana's democracy has been described as consolidated (Gyimah-Boadi 2001; 2009; Ayee 2017, Graham et al 2017) [36,37,10,28] . Several actors and factors contributed to this feat.…”

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The national peace council and democratic Consolidation: An assessment

Agbevade¹,

Graham²,

Gyampo³

2021

Int. J. Political Sci. Governance

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Ghana's democracy continues to remain an example for several African countries to emulate. After having gone through three turnovers/peaceful transfers of political power from an incumbent to the opposition since the return to democracy in 1992, several minimalists concluded that Ghana's democracy has consolidated because it passed Huntington' two-test hypothesis. Moving beyond elections and minimalist views on democratic consolidation, this paper uses the National Peace Council (NPC), as a case study on the democratic consolidation strives of Ghana. The goal of this paper is to unpack the various contribution of the NPC to Ghana's democratic consolidation. We show how, since the creation of the NPC, Ghana has been able to consolidate its democracy by remaining peaceful before, during and after elections. We also point out some major limitations to the progress of the NPC and proffer some solutions for policy recommendations.

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Ghana's elections of 7 December 2016: A post-mortem

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Predictors of citizens' trust in public leadership in Ghana: a comparison between the president, MPs and MMDCEs

Predictors of citizens' trust in public leadership in Ghana: a comparison between the president, MPs and MMDCEs

Party’s presidential primaries and the consolidation of democracy in Ghana’s 4th Republic

The national peace council and democratic Consolidation: An assessment

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