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Sabbi, Matthew:
"Staged Dilemma" : Hidden Political Intents in Ghana's Botched Referendum of 2019.
In: International Journal of African Renaissance Studies.
Bd. 17
(2022)
Heft 2
.
- S. 28-50.
ISSN 1753-7274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2022.2042705
Abstract
The cancellation of Ghana’s 2019 referendum provoked a public furore after depriving citizens of the promised constitutional right to affect the recruitment of district mayors. The consequent recriminations between the opposition and the incumbent effectively focused on the content of the poll, especially a vicious infiltration of party politics into the municipal councils. Drawing on multiple strands of data and fieldwork experience, this article presents an alternative view that unearths the inherent political equilibrium that undergirded the cancellation of the planned poll. Embedded in the political sociology of referendum, I show that despite their ostensibly competing views on local government, both parties had the end goal of maintaining the status quo, as they implicitly agreed to initiate and terminate the poll. This offered a basis for them to display their varying views on the exercise publicly while cloaking a long-standing convention to safeguard the municipal hierarchy and patronage.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Professur Politikwissenschaft: Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik > Professur Politikwissenschaft: Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik - Juniorprof. Dr. Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Professur Politikwissenschaft: Politik Afrikas und Entwicklungspolitik |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Eingestellt am: | 28 Mär 2022 08:25 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 13 Dec 2022 08:02 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/69038 |