This book brings to the fore the interplay between economics, elections and politics in Ghana's Fourth Republic. It examines the determinants and consequences of voting with an explicit emphasis on elections and the economy, and explains the state of academic understanding of how voters' respond to economic stimuli, attribute responsibility and hold political parties and elected representatives electorally accountable. In addition, the book reveals the consequences of voting, and how regularities in voting behaviour influence policy making, redistribution and specific policy making. Economic development-related issues have consistently ranked among the most important issues in elections, meaning that the economic vote is the strongest evidence that citizens' actually hold those who govern them accountable in the new democracies. This book, therefore, provides one of the first analyses of the relationship between elections, economic development-related issues and voting behaviour by providing an empirical analysis within the multi-party democratic framework of Ghana's Fourth Republic.
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ISBN
9781527526273
Publisert
2023-08-03
Utgiver
Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
177

Om bidragsyterne

Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari is a political economist and a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University for Development Studies, Ghana. He holds a PhD in development studies, an MA in democracy, governance and law, an MSc in development planning and management, a PGdip in public administration, a BA in development studies, and a diploma in public administration. He is an alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) of the Centres for African Excellence, and did his postdoctoral research fellowship at Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA). He is a quantitative researcher, and his areas of research span the fields of political economy, democratic studies, development studies and defence studies. He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals, and has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes.