| dc.contributor.author | Akokpari, John Kwabena. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1996 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1996 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN15921 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55137 | |
| dc.description | The relationship between the market and democracy has traditionally been assumed to be harmonious and mutually reinforcing. In the liberal cosmology, one is both a prologue and a precondition for the other's existence. Statist policies are generally considered incompatible with democracy and dictatorship injurious to the market. | en_US |
| dc.description | Informed by these assumptions, African governments since the 1980s have been compelled by international donor conditionalities to pursue IMF-sponsored structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) which sought to liberalize the state-controlled market, and to advance political liberalization which aimed at dismantling the authoritarian state and establishing democratic conditions. | en_US |
| dc.description | Between April 1983 and November 1992, Ghana, then under a military dictatorship, implemented a comprehensive SAP which international donors rated as highly successful, yet a success that was clearly predicated on the autocratic nature of the state. In November 1992, the government grudgingly held competitive multiparty elections under domestic and especially international pressures. | en_US |
| dc.description | However, contrary to conventional assumptions, the transition to democracy neither fostered harmony with the market nor reinforced it. What rather emerged were tensions between the market and democracy, tensions that translated into a virulent relation between the state and society. In fact, the inception of formal democracy placed the state in a perplexing dilemma as it was ideally loosing those autocratic powers required for the implementation of SAP, while at the same time requiring creditor support. The Ghanaian experience seems therefore to challenge conventional assumptions about the market-democracy partnership and suggests the need for a fundamental rethinking of Bank/Fund conditionalities for Ghana and Africa in general. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1996. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economics, General. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Science, General. | en_US |
| dc.title | Apparent contradictions in policy reforms between economic and political liberalization: A case study of debates in Ghana. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
