The dominant literature on performance of political parties seems to suggest that African
parties are not agents of democracy. The article examines the performance of political …

New oil‐producing countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa have moved rapidly to adopt local
content legislation to ensure that locally owned firms benefit from natural resource finds …

Ghana provides an interesting case of a democratic develo** country in which clientelism
is pervasive yet vote buying is rare. Drawing on fieldwork and recent scholarship, and …

This thesis explores the politics of elite commitment to promote local content and
participation within Ghana's oil and gas sector. Since Ghana discovered commercial …

The resurgence in local content reforms in most oil-rich Africa countries is broadly
understood within the elite-political projects of creating opportunities for domestic capitalists …

The democratization and market reforms that were implemented across sub-Saharan Africa
in the 1990s were intended to disperse political and economic power away from the ruling …

The quest to bridge the gender disparity in the politics of Ghana has seen little progress
owing to the challenges associated with the passage of the Affirmative Action bill by the …

There is a prevailing opinion that, in almost every election, young people are the least likely
to vote and these participation rates are continuously declining; youth membership of …

In theory, plurality electoral systems do not favour the development of minor parties.
Scholarly analysis of minor political parties has focused on their electoral performance in …

Ghana has become a two-party state by default, with the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) emerging as the only political parties with sufficient …