Download or read book The Representation of Ruling and Opposition Parties in State owned Newspapers in Contemporary Ghana written by Eric Kwadwo Amissah and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written basically to analyse a typical phenomenon concerning the media/politics nexus in contemporary Ghana by exploring how the processes of Othering are linguistically embedded in the political discourses of the state-owned Ghanaian newspaper, the Daily Graphic, when representing the relation between the ruling and opposition parties in Ghana since 1992. Secondly, the aim of this book is to demonstrate how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can be applied (or broadened) to alternative settings – here, alternative settings refer to contexts in which a conflict is not the topic of the discourse – and finally, to demonstrate that the scope of CDA can be broadened to include alternative settings.
Download or read book Papers from Ghanaian Opposition Parties written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy Consolidation Strategy Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghana written by Codesria and published by Codesria. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix 1 : Profile of political parties, 1946-1994. - 2 : Government Ghana 1957-1994. - 3 : A chronology of major political events since 31 December 1981. - 4 : Other forms of direct foreign assistance.
Download or read book The Opposition Party in Ghana written by Patricia C. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Report of a Survey on Political Parties and Party Systems in Ghana Conducted in December 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in Ghana s Electoral Politics written by Ninsin, Kwame A. and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana attained independence in 1957. From 1992, when a new constitution came into force and established a new – democratic – framework for governing the country, elections have been organized every four years to choose the governing elites. The essays in this volume are about those elections because elections give meaning to the role of citizens in democratic governance. The chapters depart from the study of formal structures by which the electorate choose their representatives. They evaluate the institutional forms that representation take in the Ghanaian context, and study elections outside the specific institutional forms that according to democratic theory are necessary for arriving at the nature of the relationships that are formed between the voters and their representatives and the nature and quality of their contribution to the democratic process.
Download or read book Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication written by Samuel Gyasi Obeng and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics), the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent issues on democratization, elections and electioneering campaigns and the constitution of order in an African context. The strategies through which political actors and the media speak about important policy issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, education, and finance during presidential sessional addresses and political campaigning are also elucidated. The extent of political ecologies’ impact on general elections, on policy issues, and on split-ticket voting (especially what causes it to happen and its impact on who gets elected and the consequent impact on party unity or disintegration) are also given scholarly attention. Also elucidated are is the entwinning of language, power, liberty, ideology and representation and issues deemed politically nerve wrecking and capable of entrapping political actors and causing the citizenry to either lose confidence in them or even call for their resignation.
Download or read book The Opposition Party in Ghana written by Barbara F. Sweeney and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Defence of Ghana written by United Party (Ghana) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reform of the Electoral System Ghana written by New Patriotic Party (Ghana) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Ghana s Democracy written by Nii Armah Josiah-Aryeh and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2001 to 2004 was arguably the most turbulent period of competitive democratic politics in Ghana's history. It was the period the author Dr Nii Armah Josiah-Aryeh was General Secretary of the largest Opposition Party, the National Democratic Congress. McCarthyist intrigue was directed toward NDC and its predecessor PNDC which had ruled Ghana for 19 of the 44 years of independence, with Flt Lt Rawlings as leader. Rawlings now constitutionally ineligible to stand, the NDC was defeated at the 2000 elections. Remarkably, Western powers so desperate to remove Rawlings, sat back to witness events that could easily have derailed their long cherished dream. Besieged by Government and its agencies, the author also had to contend with the ruthless, ambitious NDC Chairman Dr Obed Asamoah who, after being overlooked for NDC Presidential candidacy post Rawlings, had locked horns with factions even remotely identified with Rawlings. the eve of the 2004 elections saw the author caught in a Sting orchestrated by the Government, whereby a conversation with functionaries was doctored to indicate he would accept favours in exchange for resignation. INSIDE GHANA's DEMOCRACY is the author's gripping account of that bombshell and Obed's war against the NDC. With undisputed integrity, the author reveals the heart of darkness of Ghana politics, both of ruthless NDC internal machinations as well as the antidemocratic intrigue of the ruling NPP. the book beats a path-blazing genre in Ghanaian political autobiography while painting a captivating cultural landscape of Ghana. It would attract a worldwide audience interested in knowing the trying conditions of democracy in developing countries. and those fascinated with Ghana, a country both careful and careless in self management, but which manages to keep afloat under adversity while her neighbours seem not quite able to achieve similar stability under lesser rancour.
Download or read book The Representation of Ruling and Opposition Parties in State owned Newspapers in Contemporary Ghana written by Eric Kwadwo Amissah and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written basically to analyse a typical phenomenon concerning the media/politics nexus in contemporary Ghana by exploring how the processes of Othering are linguistically embedded in the political discourses of the state-owned Ghanaian newspaper, the Daily Graphic, when representing the relation between the ruling and opposition parties in Ghana since 1992. Secondly, the aim of this book is to demonstrate how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) can be applied (or broadened) to alternative settings – here, alternative settings refer to contexts in which a conflict is not the topic of the discourse – and finally, to demonstrate that the scope of CDA can be broadened to include alternative settings.
Download or read book The Evolution and Development of the New Patriotic Party in Ghana written by Joseph R. A. Ayee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the emergence and development of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in the context of a broader examination of the roles of political parties within the Ghanaian political landscape. After describing the political architecture as well as some significant constitutional issues of Ghana's democracy and the roles played by other societal stakeholders, the paper examines the rationale for the formation of the NPP, its manifesto, structure, constituency, power brokers. It then analyses various aspects of the implementation (or not) of the NPP's political and economic objectives since it came to power in 2000 with "positive change". The electoral politics of the campaigns against its major opposition, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and issues of regionalism, ethnicity and other factors are considered in detail. The paper concludes with some lessons learned and generic recommendations for emerging African political parties in relatively young democracies.
Download or read book Political Communication in Ghana s Emerging Democracy written by Margaret Ivy Amoakohene and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies newspaper coverage of two governments in Ghana's Fourth Republic investigating whether and how differences between two opposing political administrations' media relations affect the quality and amount of political news coverage. It demonstrates the extent to which media restriction of one political regime and openness of another affect media activity and content looking at four main factors: nature and level of reporting, influence of incumbency factor, freedom of expression, and relationship between government and media. It reports that coverage suggests systematic bias and concentrates less on key political actors than on their political parties. Furthermore, "journalistic newsgathering" exceeds "information subsidies" as there is minimal use of official news sources to prove that relations between Ghanaian political news sources and reporters do not constitute cardinal determinants of political news. Such relations, the book explains, fit into the separate source-reporter role option of Gieber and Johnson's (1961) three-role typology: neither characterised as negotiations/mutual exchanges nor manipulation but as a relationship of mutual mistrust and suspicion.
Download or read book Party Youth Activists and Aggressive Political Participation in Ghana written by George M. Bob-Milliar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the factors underpinning party youth activists' involvement in aggressive politics in Ghana. The rank and file party youths, known as party foot-soldiers play various roles in the partisan process. Formal power allows incumbent parties to monopolize state resources, control appointments and dispense patronage. And in an environment of “competitive clientelism” political parties also commit electoral fraud in order to win elections or to maintain their control over state resources. Foot-soldier activism has become a “viable career option” for many young Ghanaians. The economic and social dividends associated with the practice of free market democracy are the most sought after benefits for party activism at the foot-soldier category. However, these benefits are yet to materialize in Ghana. On the basis of data gathered through interviews and other sources, the central claim of this paper is that the institutionalization of a stable and highly competitive two-party political system and the informal logic of party politics are responsible for foot-soldiers' involvement in aggressive political participation. The de facto two-party system with a winner takes all; zero-sum character invests enormous patronage on the winning party. Foot soldiers aggression is also linked to structural and partisan factors such as youth unemployment, unfulfilled electoral promises, survival strategies of political elites and structural weakness in the transitional process. The paper concludes that party foot-soldiers place a high premium on capturing state power for the political elites. As a result, the foot-soldier views the change of government as the right time to claim the rewards for their efforts in ensuring victory.
Download or read book Ghana written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana: Democracy and Political participation provides a comprehensive review of the state of democracy and popular participation in government in Ghana, 2007. It evaluates Ghana's compliance with African and international law and best practice relating to citizenship and discrimination, participation in the policy process, elections, political parties and local government. The report is an essential resource for all actors interested or involved in issues of democratic governance in Ghana.
