Political Economy of Elections and Voting Behaviour in Ghana’s Fourth Republic

Empirical Evidence

Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

177 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-2627-3 (ISBN)

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This book brings to the fore the interplay between economics, elections and politics in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. It examines the determinants and consequences of voting with an explicit emphasis on elections and the economy, and explains the state of academic understanding of how voters’ respond to economic stimuli, attribute responsibility and hold political parties and elected representatives electorally accountable. In addition, the book reveals the consequences of voting, and how regularities in voting behaviour influence policy making, redistribution and specific policy making. Economic development-related issues have consistently ranked among the most important issues in elections, meaning that the economic vote is the strongest evidence that citizens’ actually hold those who govern them accountable in the new democracies. This book, therefore, provides one of the first analyses of the relationship between elections, economic development-related issues and voting behaviour by providing an empirical analysis within the multi-party democratic framework of Ghana’s Fourth Republic.

Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari is a political economist and a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University for Development Studies, Ghana. He holds a PhD in development studies, an MA in democracy, governance and law, an MSc in development planning and management, a PGdip in public administration, a BA in development studies, and a diploma in public administration. He is an alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) of the Centres for African Excellence, and did his postdoctoral research fellowship at Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA). He is a quantitative researcher, and his areas of research span the fields of political economy, democratic studies, development studies and defence studies. He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals, and has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5275-2627-5 / 1527526275
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-2627-3 / 9781527526273
Zustand	Neuware