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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Oil, politics, and Ghana's democracy
Journal of Democracy, Volume 23, No. 3, Year 2012
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Description
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.
Authors & Co-Authors
Gyimah-Boadi, E.
Ghana, Accra
University of Ghana
Kwasi Prempeh, H.
United States, South Orange
Seton Hall University
Statistics
Citations: 142
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1353/jod.2012.0042
ISSN:
10455736
e-ISSN:
10863214
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Ghana