Ghana and Governance Assessments
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- An empirical analysis of African political party manifestos
- S. Elischer (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010
- The third wave of democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a new interest in African political parties and their role in democratic consolidation. However few, if any, studies systematically compare political party manifestos....
- What influences swing voters? Assessing the Ghanian election
- K.R. Weghorst; S.I. Lindberg / Quality of Government Institute, 2010
- This paper states that is one of the first to systematically address the question of whether strength of ethnic identity, political parties’ campaigns, poverty, or evaluation of clientelism versus collective/public goods, determ...
- The successful Ghana election of 2008 – a convenient myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s elections revisited
- H. Jockers; D. Kohnort; P. Nugent / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2009
- Ghana’s 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception has prevailed despite persistent concerns about ethnic block voting and electoral fraud. Electoral malpractice...
- Assessing options for Ghana's oil revenues
- C. Breisinger; X. Diao; R. Schweickert / Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2009
- Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of resource booms often concentrate on the short-run 'Dutch disease' effects on public expenditure, where exchange rate appreciation and competition for domestic resources causes a red...
- Improving governance through the APRM: Ghana and the wider African context
- S. Grimm (ed); E. Gyimah-Boadi (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is seen as the main tool for improving governance in Africa. The APRM is designed as a self-evaluation mechanism, to be voluntarily acceded to by a country by signing a Memorandum of Under...
- Lack of constitutionalism hits African governance
- Y. T u r i a n s k y i / South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
- This paper analyses the discussion and recommendations about Africa's pressing political governance issues - including the separation of powers, election management and corruption - from the APRM reports of Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, South...
- Why do anti-corruption commissions fail?
- A. Doig; D. Watt; R. Williams / U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005
- This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The f...
- African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in Ghana
- A. Bing-Pappoe / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- This paper examines the context within which the Ghana APRM process was conducted, the nature of the assessment, the assessment process, and how the outcome of the assessment process was used. The Ghana APRM assessment was ...
- Research-policy linkages in Ghana's rice tariff reforms
- A. deGrassi / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
- Agricultural trade policies, in particular import tariffs to protect domestic production, constitute a highly contested field of agricultural policy. In view of the recent focus on “evidence-based policy making” in the int...
- Satisfaction with democracy high in Ghana
- Afrobarometer, 2008
- This study shows that popular support for and satisfaction with democracy in Ghana has been high and trending upwards since 2002. Based on Afrobarometer survey data, the authors argue that Ghanaian democratization is advan...
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