Demons of Transitional Democracies: Politics of Insults and Acrimony in Ghana

Asamoah, Kwame; Yeboah‐Assiamah, Emmanuel; Osei‐Kojo, Alex

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“…The media is seen as the fourth estate of the realm and has special place in exposing societal rots and political abuses in the system. The 1992 Republican Constitution of Ghana and also the repeal of the Criminal Libel Law grant adequate freedom to the media to carry out their investigative stories and to contribute to the good governance process (Asamoah et al ., ).…”

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The calculus of corruption: a paradox of ‘strong’ corruption amidst ‘strong’ systems and institutions in developing administrative systems

Yeboah‐Assiamah

Alesu-Dordzi

2015

Journal of Public Affairs

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Without the right political will to battle corruption, systems and institutions are put in place and tend to be façade and window dressing. Ghana, especially, in the new millennium has seen the proliferation of various institutions ostensibly to curb the phenomenon of corruption, yet its impact has only been marginal. This study adopts two models of corruption to critically assess the institutional development of Ghana since the Fourth Republican Dispensation and how these institutions have impacted the fight against corruption. The study adopts mainly secondary data and resources from the 1992 Republican Constitution, Acts of Parliaments and Legislative Instruments relevant corruption combat. An analysis of the corruption perception index of Ghana from 2000 to 2014 and other data portrays poor performance. What accounts for this phenomenon? Are there really demons who obstruct the spirit and letter of the institutions? Are the systems weak or the human elements (demons) rather stronger in adapting and outsmarting the institutions? Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The calculus of corruption: a paradox of ‘strong’ corruption amidst ‘strong’ systems and institutions in developing administrative systems

Yeboah‐Assiamah

Alesu-Dordzi

2015

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Similarly, inhuman paints a portrait of a heartless Indexed African Journals Online (AJOL): www.info@ajol.info government perpetuating hardship on the citizenry and cowing them into acceptance of the status quo. JAK's negative campaign tactics confirm the assumption that most campaign discourse in Ghana is characterized by intemperate language (see Asamoah et al, 2014;Ofori, 2014).…”

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A comparative study of challenger-incumbent strategies in Ghanaian presidential campaign: the case of John Agyekum Kufuor

Mensah¹,

Sarfo-Adu²,

Afful³

2018

AFRREV IJAH: Int J. Art and Humanities

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In recent years, growing research interest in challenger-incumbent campaign communication has provided illuminating insights into the kinds of strategies favoured by challengers and incumbents in presidential elections. However, most of these studies tend to focus on two or more presidential candidates. This has resulted in little knowledge about the rhetorical strategies of the same candidate who contested as a challenger in a previous election, became president and won again as an incumbent in the next election. In this paper, we explore and compare challenger-incumbent strategies as they manifest in the presidential campaign of John Agyekum Kufuor's (JAK) who won the 2000 presidential elections as a fresh candidate and, for a second term, won in 2004, as an incumbent. A qualitative analysis of four of his campaign speeches in both elections revealed that as a challenger, JAK presented

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“…There has been a major public concern over the upsurge of insults and acrimony in Ghanaian political discourse (cf. Ankrah, 2016;Asamoah et al, 2014;Ofori, 2017).…”

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The policy or the person? A corpus-based functional analysis of manifestos of two political parties in Ghana

Sarfo-Kantankah¹

2021

Cont. J. Afr. Stud.

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Containing the set of policies that political parties stand for and wish to implement if they are elected to govern a country, manifestos are a campaign tool used by political parties to persuade the citizenry to vote in a certain direction. This paper uses corpus-linguistic methods to investigate the key concepts in the manifestos of two Ghanaian political parties, namely: the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National democratic Congress (NDC). The objective is to examine the strategies and the focus of the manifestos of the two parties. The analysis reveals that while the NPP target both policy and the personalities of their opponent candidates, the NDC appear to focus mainly on policy. The paper concludes that, be it a focus on policy or personality, contextual relevance is the key. Thus, the paper proposes a relevance model of political campaign discourse. The paper has implications for political discourse, political campaigning and political communication.

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Demons of Transitional Democracies: Politics of Insults and Acrimony in Ghana

Cited by 15 publications

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The calculus of corruption: a paradox of ‘strong’ corruption amidst ‘strong’ systems and institutions in developing administrative systems

The calculus of corruption: a paradox of ‘strong’ corruption amidst ‘strong’ systems and institutions in developing administrative systems

A comparative study of challenger-incumbent strategies in Ghanaian presidential campaign: the case of John Agyekum Kufuor

The policy or the person? A corpus-based functional analysis of manifestos of two political parties in Ghana

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