Is an all-inclusive educational policy a determinant of voting behaviour in Ghana?
Date
2022
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International Journal of Social Economics
Abstract
Purpose: In this study, the authors investigate Ghana’s Free Senior High School policy as an all-inclusive
development policy that drives voting behaviour.
Design, methodology, and approach: using the snowball sampling technique and a statistically representative
sample size of 413 eligible voters from Ghana, the authors estimate a multinomial logistic regression with its
marginal effects.
Findings: The results show that as the number of Free Senior High School beneficiaries per household
increases, the more the voters in that household are likely to vote for the policy implementor. Similarly, voters
who believe that the Free Senior High School policy has had an impact on students’ performance are more likely
to vote for the policy implementor. By implication, an all-inclusive development policy such as the Free Senior
High School educational policy has the probability of influencing voting behaviour in favour of the policy
implementor.
Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the nexus
between an all-inclusive Free Senior High School educational policy and voting behaviour in Ghana.
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Research Article
Keywords
Free senior high school, Electoral outcome, Multinomial logit