The 2020 General Elections in Ghana: An Analysis of the Issues, Voting Pattern and Impact

Asekere, George

doi:10.11648/j.ss.20211001.13

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“…Fee-free policy interventions must be formulated and implemented in relation to addressing other demand and supply dimensions. Nevertheless, the political capital of securing presidential re-election was obtained from FSHS due to its popularity among electorates while this did not manifest in PFSHS (Asekere, 2021;Frempong, 2020). These inferences support the conclusions of Mohammed and Kuyini's (2021) evaluation of the FSHS policy.…”

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Responding to access and beyond in Fee-free policies: Comparative Review of Progressive Free Senior High and Free Senior High School policies in Ghana

Asante

Agbee

2021

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The study compares two fee-free policies at the upper secondary level in Ghana on how they responded to access and the policymaking processes in education. Secondary sources of data were used, while Haddad and Demsky’s framework of education policymaking served as the theoretical basis for textual data analysis. The results show that Free Senior High School policy responded to the program output of an increase in access, unlike Progressive Free Senior High policy. However, the inconsistent release of funding and limited stakeholder consultation are common features of the policies. It is further observed that the desirability of access is over prioritised in the current Free Senior High School policy, leaving gaps in educational facilities and resources during policy decision. To address these challenges, sources of funding must be re-assessed for possible policy redesign that invites consumers of the policy who opt for boarding status to absorb a proportion of boarding fees.

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Responding to access and beyond in Fee-free policies: Comparative Review of Progressive Free Senior High and Free Senior High School policies in Ghana

Asante

Agbee

2021

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“…In these factors, the framing of issues, the activities of advocacy coalition, focusing events and the shift in government position can be generally conceptualised as domestic politics. Domestic politics has been a dominant factor in setting policy agenda, making institutions and policy actors more responsive to public issues, particularly fee-free policies in Ghana due to the popularity of these policies (Adarkwah, 2022 ; Asekere, 2021 ; Avenstrup et al, 2004 ; Correa et al, 2020 ; Frempong, 2020 ; Grindle & Thomas, 1989 ; Koop et al, 2022 ; Mohammed & Kuyini, 2021 ; Zohlnhöfer, 2009 ).…”

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Agenda to adoption: understanding the mechanisms driving fee-free policy development in Sub-Saharan Africa through policy change frameworks

2022

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Policy change frameworks are commonly used to understand policy development processes. However, few studies have attempted to apply these frameworks to the recent popular fee-free policy education at the high school level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Investigating fee-free policy development through policy change frameworks can assist both in identifying the genesis of past policies, including who the important actors are, how issues are framed and problematised, and how specific solutions are designed, as well as how to interpret unfolding policies. In this article, we review three prominent policy change frameworks: Baumgartner and Jones’ “punctuated equilibrium framework,” Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith’s “advocacy coalition framework,” and Kingdon’s “multiple streams framework.” After reviewing the frameworks, we apply them to two fee-free policies in Ghana which are Progressive Free Senior High School and Free Senior High School policies to understand the drivers of fee-free policy change. From the socio-political background, three main concepts were derived from these policy change frameworks deducing from the basic assumptions of these theories. They are domestic politics, political and policy entrepreneurs, and socio-economic dynamics. The results show that fee-free policies are largely driven by domestic politics and political and policy entrepreneurs in political executive positions. Factors under socio-economic dynamics are only scope conditions that are not significant to trigger the adoption of a fee-free policy.

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The Dynamics and Complexities of Voter Choices in Ghana: A Perspective of Most Populous Swing and Stronghold Constituencies

Asekere

2022

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The study explored the determinants of voter behaviour in the electoral context, which focuses on swing and stronghold constituencies in Ghana, where two major political parties have dominated the political space, and alternated power since the return to constitutional rule in 1993. Primary data were gathered from 400 registered voters in three most populous swing and stronghold constituencies and triangulated with secondary data from elections held between 2000–2020 in Ghana. The results show that long-term factors such as ideology and party identity are critical in determining voter choices in stronghold constituencies while short-term factors such as campaign messages and appeal of the personality contesting the elections are some of the factors considered by the electorate in swing constituencies. The study noted that the two political parties in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress, and the New Patriotic Party, have explored both long and short-term factors to sustain their dominance in stronghold constituencies.

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The 2020 General Elections in Ghana: An Analysis of the Issues, Voting Pattern and Impact

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Responding to access and beyond in Fee-free policies: Comparative Review of Progressive Free Senior High and Free Senior High School policies in Ghana

Responding to access and beyond in Fee-free policies: Comparative Review of Progressive Free Senior High and Free Senior High School policies in Ghana

Agenda to adoption: understanding the mechanisms driving fee-free policy development in Sub-Saharan Africa through policy change frameworks

The Dynamics and Complexities of Voter Choices in Ghana: A Perspective of Most Populous Swing and Stronghold Constituencies

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