Ghanaian politics and political communication

In: Africa: past, present & prospects

Abstract

Introduction / Samuel Gyasi Obeng & Emmanuel Debrah -- Ghana's political environment and the 2016 general election / Emmanuel Debrah -- Election campaign in Ghana's 2016 national elections / Seidu Alidu -- Communicating with the electorate in the 2016 elections: did the political parties and their candidates lean on the issues? / Richard Asante -- (Mis)coordination: why would Ghanaian political actors and political parties encourage split-ticket voting? / Samuel Darkwa -- Are members of parliament in Ghana responsive to their constituents in policy making? Evidence from the national health insurance scheme / Hassan Wahab -- When government is unaware it is incommunicado / Margaret I. Amoakohene & Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh -- Pragmatic analysis of first person pronoun deixes in president Nana Akuffo Addo's 2018 State of the Nation's Address (SONA) / Kofi Agyekum -- Discursive construction of the representative claim in UK and Ghanaian parliamentary discourse / Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah -- How much communication is in Ghanaian presidents' State of the Nation Addresses? / Margaret I. Amoakohene -- Power, domination and manipulation in students' parliamentary discourse in Ghanaian university / Dora F. Edu-Buandoh & Nancy Boahemaa Nkansah -- The role of music in Ghanaian political communication / Kofi Agyekum, Joshua Alfred Amuah & Hilarius Mawutor Wuaku -- President Akufo-Addo's address to the nation on the US-Ghana military co-operation agreement: a political communicative functional and framing analytic approach / Etse Sikanku, Frank Kofi Boadi, Halisa Aziz, & Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour -- Language and liberty in the Ghanaian political ecology: a brief overview / Samuel Obeng.