Arbeitspapier

The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana's Elections Revisited

Ghana's 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception has prevailed despite persistent concerns about 'ethnic block voting' and electoral fraud. Electoral malpractice and vote rigging along ethnic lines in Ghana's virtual two-party system could regain decisive importance as a 'third force' that could tip the balance in future, possibly coming to represent an even more important factor than the smaller opposition parties. Unfortunate diplomatic and technocratic biases in election monitoring, combined with a reluctance on the part of the responsible authorities to investigate irregularities in what appears to be a long history of fraudulent 'ethnic block voting', amounts to a dangerous time bomb of unresolved conflict which could explode in future elections.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GIGA Working Papers ; No. 109

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania
Thema
elections
ethnicity
election observation
informal institutions
impunity
Ghana

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jockers, Heinz
Kohnert, Dirk
Nugent, Paul
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2009

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jockers, Heinz
  • Kohnert, Dirk
  • Nugent, Paul
  • German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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