Living in the past: Urban, rural and ethnic themes in the 1992 and 1996 elections in Ghana

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 287-319

  Nugent, Paul ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION; ELECTION; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

GHANA;

EID: 0032842444     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X99003055     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Abdulai, N., ed. 1995. Ghana: The Kume Preko Demonstrations: poverty, corruption and the Rawlings dictatorship. London: Africa Research and Information Bureau.
2. Ayee, J. 1997. 'The December 1996 general elections in Ghana', Electoral Studies 16, 3: 416-27.
3. Bawumia, M. 1998. 'Understanding the rural-urban voting patterns in the 1992 Presidential election: a closer look at the distributional impact of Ghana's Structural Adjustment Programme', Journal of Modern African Studies 36, 1: 47-70.
4. Beckett, P. 1997. 'Legitimizing democracy: the role of the highly educated elite', in Beckett and Young, Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria.
5. Beckett, P. & C. Young, eds. 1997. Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria. Rochester & Woodbridge: Rochester University Press.
6. Bogner, A. forthcoming. 'The 1994 civil war in northern Ghana: the genesis and escalation of a "tribal" conflict', in Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent, eds. Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. London: Macmillan.
7. Eboussi Boulaga, F. 1993. Les Conférences Nationales en Afrique Noire. Paris: Karthala.
8. Brown, D. 1980. 'The political response to immiseration: a case study of rural Ghana', Genève Afrique 18, 1: 57-74.
9. Bratton, M. & N. van der Walle. 1997. Democratic Experiments in Africa: regime transitions in comparative perspective. Cambridge University Press.
10. Brydon, L. & K. Legge. 1996. Adjusting Ghanaian Society: the World Bank, the IMF and Ghana. London & New York: I. B. Tauris.
11. Chavagneux, C. 1997. Ghana, une révolution de bon sens: économie politique d'un ajustement structurel. Paris: Karthala.
12. Chazan, N. 1987. 'The anomalies of continuity: perspectives on Ghanaian elections since independence', in F. Hayward, ed. Elections in Independent Africa. Boulder, CO & London: Westview.
13. Diamond, L., A. H. M. Kirk-Greene & O. Oyediran. 1997. Transition Without End: politics and civil society under Babangida. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
14. Gilbert, M. 1997. '"No condition is permanent": ethnic construction and the use of history in Akuapem', Africa 67, 4: 501-33.
15. Gros, J.-G. 1998. Democratization in Late-Twentieth-Century Africa: coping with uncertainty. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press.
16. Haugerud, A. 1995. The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Cambridge University Press.
17. Jeffries, R. 1980. 'The Ghanaian elections of 1979', African Affairs, 79, 316: 397-414.
18. Jeffries, R. 1998. 'The Ghanaian elections of 1996: towards the consolidation of democracy?', African Affairs 97, 387: 189-208.
19. Jeffries, R. & C. Thomas. 1993. 'The Ghanaian elections of 1992', African Affairs 92, 368: 331-66.
20. Kirby, J. 1997. 'The "traditional state" and democratization: paths to a new equilibrium in northern Ghana', unpublished paper.
21. Lentz, C. & P. Nugent, eds. forthcoming. Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention. London: Macmillan.
22. National Democratic Congress. 1996. National Democratic Congress: 1996 Manifesto. Accra: NDC.
23. New Patriotic Party. 1993. The Stolen Verdict: Ghana, November 1992 presidential election. Accra: NPP.
24. New Patriotic Party. 1996. Agenda For Change: manifesto of the New Patriotic Party. Accra: NPP.
25. Nugent, P. 1995. Big Men, Small Boys and Politics in Ghana: power, ideology and the burden of history, 1982-94. London & New York: Frances Pinter.
26. Nugent, P. 1998. 'The flight-lieutenant rides (to power) again: national delusions, local fixations and the 1996 Ghanaian elections', Occasional Paper No. 76. University of Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies.
27. Oquaye, M. 1995. 'The Ghanaian elections of 1992: a dissenting view', African Affairs 94, 375: 259-75.
28. Republic of Ghana. 1992. Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
29. Saaka, Y. 1997. 'Legitimizing the illegitimate: the 1992 Presidential election as a prelude to Ghana's Fourth Republic', in G. A. Agbango, ed. Issues and Trends in Contemporary African Politics: stability, development and democratization. New York: Peter Lang.
30. Skalník, P. 1996. 'Community violence in northern Ghana in 1994: a documentary account', unpublished paper prepared for PAAA/AASA conference. Pretoria.
31. Throup, D. & C. Hornsby. 1998. Multi-Party Politics in Kenya. Oxford: James Currey.
32. Verlet, M. 1997. 'Ghana: l'effet Rawlings', Afrique Contemporaine 182: 32-46.
33. Wilks, I. 1975. Asante in the Nineteenth Century: the structure and evolution of a political order. Cambridge University Press.