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An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
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Social Institutions, and Access to Resources
TL;DR: For over a decade African economies have been plagued by recurrent food shortages, economic decline and growing disparities between the living standards of rich and poor as discussed by the authors, and to a large extent food shortages and rural impoverishment may be attributed to external shocks such as world recession, oil price shocks, deteriorating terms of trade and mounting debt service obligations.
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Disengagement from the State in Africa: Reflections on the Experience of Ghana and Guinea
Victor Azarya,Naomi Chazan +1 more
TL;DR: The state constitutes a superior means for the fulfillment of economic and social aspirations; participation in its activities is deemed beneficial, and various sectors of society strive to associate with its institutions and gain access to its resources as discussed by the authors.
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What Drives the Swing Voter in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a new measure enabling a more comprehensive assessment of swing voting, including the differentiation between clientelistic and collective goods motivations, in an environment where voters are rarely considered persuadable.
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The tower of babel as a coordination game: political linguistics in ghana
TL;DR: The curse of Babel has been negotiated in a variety of ways as mentioned in this paper, and the most common solution is based on simple market conditions: high levels of contact between peoples of different language groups induce new speech forms, permitting intergroup communication.
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Effective Opposition Strategies: Collective Goods or Clientelism?
TL;DR: The authors analyzed voters' retrospective sanctioning and prospective selection of incumbent and opposition candidates for legislative office in Ghana and found that voters value development when choosing political leaders and hold influential retrospective evaluations of performance.