Political parties in Ghana: agents of democracy?
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Political Parties and Democracy
A central claim of democratic theory is that democracy induces governments to be responsive to the preferences of the people. Political parties organize politics in every modern democracy, and some observers claim that parties are what induce democracies to be responsive. Yet, according to others, parties give voice to extremists and reduce the responsiveness of governments to the citizenry. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Contemporary African Studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0258-9001,1469-9397
DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2013.839227