Ghana: Transition to Democracy

On 3 January 1993, a new democratic order was initiated in Ghana an don 7 January 1997 history was made. For the first time in four decades, a democratically elected government would run its full mandate and be reelected. Rather than be overwhelmed by the euphoria of this new awakening, the authors in this volume question the prevailing trends and tendencies in the country’s democratization process. Given its history of incomplete transitions, a thorough analysis of the extremely complex nature of the Ghanaian transition process demands profound reflections on previous and existing orders. The papers in this book identify and discuss the interplay of factors impinging on the current process: the intertwined relationships between economic and political liberalization, the institutional and non-institutional structures in the emergence of national mass consciousness and movements, and the connections between the military, party politics and chances of sustainable democratic transitions.