Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi’s research while affiliated with University of Ghana and other places

... 8 Asking whether someone supports democracy is moreover not getting at whether someone simultaneously views non-democratic alternatives as viable (Schedler & Sarsfield, 2007). Democratic and non-democratic norms and ideals are inherently incompatible and someone who prefers democracy but can still accept or see merit in non-democratic forms of governance may display normative and practical support for democracy, but not 'authentic support' (Norris, 1999;Dalton, 2004;Bratton et al., 2005;Sin & Wells, 2005). 'Authentic democratic support 'for democracy is best queried in "concrete terms and in the form of comparisons with plausible alternatives" (Bratton & Mattes, 2001: 457). ...

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Where You Sit Is Where You Stand: Perceived (In)Equality and Demand for Democracy in Africa

... Thus, their evaluations of elections increased after the election. Politically knowledgeable, those who could correctly identify their MP's name, were more likely to downgrade their perceptions of the election after it took place, which confirms the expectation in the institutional trust literature in developing context that political sophistication tends to make citizens more critical of institutions (Bratton et al., 2005;Moehler 2009). Finally, respondent's age, gender, level of education, income, as well as whether they live in a rural or urban area had no statistically significant relationship with changes in the perceived integrity of elections. ...

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Where Are the Sore Losers? Competitive Authoritarianism, Incumbent Defeat, and Electoral Trust in Zambia’s 2021 Election

... 48). Furthermore, democracy either held ground or deepened in some countries like South Africa or Ghana(Mattes and Gyimah-Boadi 2003) where freedoms improved progressively and elections resulted in multiple alterations of power since the transitions. Many of the electoral democracies which emerged after 1990 persisted for more than a decade and some new countries transitioned to multiparty politics.25 ...

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THE RISE OF ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: AN EXPLORATION OF SEMI-AUTHORITARIANISM IN POST-1991 ETHIOPIA

... Given that political parties, which are seen as fairly marginal players in the politics of many developing countries, this paper examines whether parties promote or undermine Ghana"s drive to democratic consolidation. Extent literature on democracy, democratic consolidation, and elections examines Ghana"s democratic transition [1,30], and the performance of political parties in elections [12,31,48]. Scholars also shed light on ethnicity and voting behavior [2,7,27,36], political party financing [4,9], the role of civil society and state institutions [8,52], and understanding political party duopoly in Ghana [5]. ...

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Political Parties: Builders and Destroyers of Ghana’s Drive to Democratic Consolidation

... It also had the most educated, skilled, and experienced workforce with a welldesigned development plan in SSA (Konadu-Agyemang, 2000; also see Huq, 1989;Werlin, 1994). For Bratton et al. (2001), Ghana was at the level of a rising middleincome country and at par with South Korea (Werlin, 1994;Konadu-Agyemang, 2000) at the time of independence. Unfortunately, Ghana's economic performance began to fall into serious decay by the time Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown from power in 1966. ...

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A Comparative Analysis of the Structural Adjustment Programs in Ghana and Zambia: Policies and Performance