Democracy in Ghana - Everyday Politics in Urban Africa

A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.

List of contents

1. Democracy, development, and daily life; Part I. The Roots of Urban Politics in Africa: 2. Leadership and civic life in Urban Africa; 3: The political history of urbanization in Ghana; Part II. Everyday Politics in Urban Ghana: 4. The construction of legitimate authority; 5. Distributive politics for an urbanizing continent; 6. The organization of civic life; 7. Everyday politics in urban Africa.

About the author

Jeffrey W. Paller is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa and his work is published in Polity, African Studies Review, Africa Today, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa Spectrum, and Current History. His dissertation won the African Politics Conference Group-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics Award. He is secretary for the African Politics Conference Group and chair of the Comparative Urban Politics Related Group for the American Political Science Association. He curates the weekly news bulletin, This Week in Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Paller, Jeffrey W. Paller, Jeffrey W. (University of San Francisco) Paller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781316513309
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51330-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ghana, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political structure & processes, Social issues & processes, African History, Social and ethical issues, Political structure and processes