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Title:Resurgence of multi-party rule in Ghana, 1990-2004: a historical review
Author:Yayoh, Wilson KwameISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana (ISSN 0855-3246)
Issue:10
Pages:125-147
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Ghana
West Africa
Subjects:political change
democratization
multiparty systems
elections
1990-1999
2000-2009
politics
Ghana--Politics and government
Ghana--History
political parties
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41406736
Abstract:The Fourth Republic of Ghana, inaugurated in 1992, marked the transition from a long period of military rule and dictatorship to democracy and has witnessed a historic transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another. The article takes a historical view of Ghana's transition to multiparty democracy from 1990 to 2004, discussing the prelude to multiparty rule, the process of constitution-making initiated by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government in 1990, culminating in the constitutional referendum of 28 April 1992, the lifting of the ban on political parties on 18 May 1992, successive presidential and parliamentary elections (1992, 1996, 2000), and the institution of the National Reconciliation Commission. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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