Political accountability in Africa: is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Goran Hyden | Africa Power and Politics Programme | 2010
How does the idea of ‘working with the grain’ apply to the issue of political accountability
as it is confronted by parliamentarians in Africa? Drawing on interviews with Ghanaian
MPs in the context of the APPP research stream on parliamentarians, this paper offers an
answer. It proposes a framework for a comparative study of MPs’ accountability across
countries which would shed further light on the issues raised by the Ghanaian respondents.
It argues that parties and party systems are bound to play an important role in
strengthening MPs’ accountability, and that making progress towards democracy entails
politicians being allowed to ‘live’ their own rules rather than being prematurely forced
into Western institutional straitjackets.
Seite(n) | 23
Sprache | English
Sprache | English
ursprüngliche Herkunft | http://www.institutions-africa.org/filestream/20100118-appp-working-paper-6-political-accountability-in-africa-is-the-glass-half-ful-or-half-empty-by-goran-hyden-january-2010
Political accountability in Africa: is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Political accountability in Africa: is the glass half-full or half-empty?