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Title:The 2004 elections in northern Ghana
Author:Kelly, BobISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:32
Issue:104-105
Pages:455-461
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:political attitudes
elections
2004
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240500329320
Abstract:For Ghana as a whole, the 2004 elections were a triumph for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). However, for the three northern regions, their continued support for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the much smaller People's National Convention (PNC) confirmed their continuing divergence from political trends in most of the south. Northern Ghanaian politics cannot be explained in terms of a single factor, with traditional disputes, interethnic rivalries, ideological traditions, electoral self-interest, the growth of new interest groups, and the personal appeal of particular candidates all playing a role. To understand the overall failure of the NPP in the north, the author breaks the north down into more meaningful units and looks at the interaction of different processes. These are traditional conflicts, developmental demands, personal attributes and ideology. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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