Oil, politics, and Ghana's democracy

dc.contributor.author	Gyimah-Boadi, E.
dc.contributor.author	Kwasi Prempeh, H.
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-15T09:57:53Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-15T09:57:53Z
dc.date.issued	2012-07
dc.description.abstract	Africa's natural resource-rich countries tend to combine mismanagement of their "windfall" with poor record of democratic governance. However, for Ghana, which has recently become an oil producer, the prospect of escaping the "resource curse" is decent - largely on account of its current status as an electoral democracy. While the prevailing democratic political environment has contributed positively to the crafting of policy governing the new oil sector, and legislation and nascent institutions partially justify such optimism, severe deficiencies in contemporary Ghanaian politics, together with the new resource's aggravation of the country's patronage-fuelled democracy and acrimonious political competition, give cause for caution. © 2012 National Endowment for Democracy and The Johns Hopkins University Press.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	Vol. 23(3): pp 94-108
dc.identifier.other	DOI: 10.1353/jod.2012.0042
dc.identifier.uri	http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/26816
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Journal of Democracy	en_US
dc.subject	Oil	en_US
dc.subject	Politics	en_US
dc.subject	Ghana	en_US
dc.subject	Democracy	en_US
dc.title	Oil, politics, and Ghana's democracy	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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