An Evaluation of the Quality of Democracy of Ghana
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Date
2023
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Routledge
Abstract
This paper assessed the quality of Ghana’s democracy along
eight dimensions of democratic quality. The empirical basis of
the study is information from 80 interviews and secondary
sources. The evidence showed that there are intra-dimension
and inter-dimension differences, in Ghana’s democratic quality
performance and the dimensions do not co-vary. It also found
that there is a gap between the demand for democracy and the
supply of it. It further established that the causes of the democratic
quality deficits are both internal and external. These findings
speak of democratic backsliding and democratic careening
in the literature – where the political involvement of citizens is
limited to voting which is declining in quality, while they are
ignored between elections, and they have little possibility of
controlling corruption, or abuse of citizens’ rights or misgovernment;
and where democracy is such that it lurches, swerves,
sways, and threatens to tip over. Suggestions for resolving the
democratic deficits are proffered, failing to implement which,
Ghana’s fledgling democracy, which has shown signs of deterioration,
will worsen.
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Research Article
Keywords
Ghana, democracy, democratic backsliding
Citation
Abdulai Kuyini Mohammed (2023): An Evaluation of the Quality of Democracy of Ghana, Democracy and Security, DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2023.2220140