An Evaluation of the Quality of Democracy of Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorMohammed, A.K.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-20T17:12:48Z
dc.date.available2023-06-20T17:12:48Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAbdulai Kuyini Mohammed (2023): An Evaluation of the Quality of Democracy of Ghana, Democracy and Security, DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2023.2220140en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2023.2220140
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/39326
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectdemocracyen_US
dc.subjectdemocratic backslidingen_US
dc.titleAn Evaluation of the Quality of Democracy of Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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