Measuring Governance Institutions’ Success in Ghana: The Case of the Electoral Commission 1993-2008

dc.contributor.authorDebrah, E.
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-16T16:18:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-14T14:15:47Z
dc.date.available2013-01-16T16:18:22Z
dc.date.available2017-10-14T14:15:47Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe need for state institutions to promote good governance is now a necessary condition for consolidating new democracies. However, achieving this objective represents a daunting challenge for the emerging constitutional bodies in Ghana. This article sets out to examine the Electoral Commission's (EC) efforts at institutionalising good governance in the management of the electoral process. Against the backdrop of failed electoral process in most African countries, the EC has organised four successful general elections with marginal errors. The most distinguishing factors accounting for the EC's success were largely, but not exclusively, the making of the electoral process transparent, fostering agreement on the rules of the game and asserting its autonomy in relation to the performance of its mandate. What needs to be done is electoral reform to overcome challenges posed by delayed adjudication of post-election disputes and executive financial control of the EC. This will require the creation of an electoral court to deal swiftly and impartially with election disputes and a special electoral fund to insulate the EC from government's financial manipulationsen_US
dc.identifier.citationAfrican Studies 70(1)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://197.255.68.203/handle/123456789/2626
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.titleMeasuring Governance Institutions’ Success in Ghana: The Case of the Electoral Commission 1993-2008en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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