Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6460397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai (0000-0001-6383-035X), L Buur (0000-0001-8069-7140, Roskilde University), Paul Stacey (0000-0002-7208-0295), Paul Austin Stacey (0000-0002-4768-0950, Roskilde University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 192 |
| Pages | 107008-107008 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-750X • E-ISSN: 1873-5991 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107008 |
| OpenAlex | W4409384119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 88 |
Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Extraction and Separation Processes · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development
Dispossession by Ban and Militarization
Inner dimensions, outer change
Politicians’ complicity in ‘ Galamsey ’ and the contradictions of promoting tree-based climate action in Ghana
State incapacitation for partisan political interest
Muddy waters
Environmental governance and political contestation in contexts of illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana
Scarcity reimagined
Governing Extractive Industries
Shootings and burning excavators
Small-scale mining in Ghana
A dangerous bet
Artisanal and small-scale mining as an extralegal economy
Movers, Motives, and Impact of Illegal Small-Scale Mining
Brick by brick, block by block
Five misunderstandings about case-study research
Political settlements and the analysis of institutions
Navigating the hills and voluntary confinement
Formalization bubbles’
Has the promise of formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) failed? The case of Zambia
Capacity building for self-regulation of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) sector
Governing the Ungovernable? Conceptualising embeddedness in Ghana's gold mining sector
Formalization of artisanal miners
Responding to the commodity boom with varieties of resource nationalism
Guns and fires
Politics on display
Confronting shifting energy landscapes and contested domestic politics
Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining
Artisanal and small-scale mining methods and the Sustainable Development Goal 6
When the means become the ends
Party Politics and the Political Economy of Ghana’s Oil
The Political Economy of Regional Inequality in Ghana
Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power
Changing priorities, shifting narratives
Graduate unemployment, artisanal and small-scale mining, and rural transformation in Ghana
Shifting Discourses of Vilification and the Taming of Unruly Mining Landscapes in Ghana
Unravelling the nexus of illicit gold trade, protection rackets, and political settlement dynamics
Political settlements analysis and the study of pro-poor development
Governance Institutions, Resource Rights Regimes, and the Informal Mining Sector
Power, pacts and political settlements
Formalizing artisanal mining ‘spaces’ in rural sub-Saharan Africa
For the Environment
Over-spilling institutions
Competitive clientelism, donors and the politics of social protection uptake in Ghana
Institutional design of Ghana and the Fourth Republic
A toxic free future
The persistence of informality
The failure of the militarised fight against ‘Galamsey’ in Ghana
Governance fragmentation and agency of miners in Ghana’s artisanal mining sector
A ‘cartography of concern’
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana
Understanding power, culture and institutional change
Environmental governance and political contestation in contexts of illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana
Informal, Legal, or Illegal? Varieties of Artisanal Mining in the Global South
Out of the shadows? Formalisation approaches to informal economic activity
Oil, Politics, and Ghana’s Democracy
Democratization, party systems, and the endogenous roots of Ghanaian clientelism
Political party activism in Ghana
Consolidating democracy in Ghana
Party campaign strategies in Ghana
Studying political settlements in Africa
Introduction
The Politics of Development Under Competitive Clientelism
Change for a Better Ghana
Strained relations
Urban Informality
The "Blind" State
Between the Africa Mining Vision and the neo-patrimonial state
Unpacking Land Grabs
Large-scale mining and ecological imperialism in Africa
The Economic Logic of Persistent Informality
Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State
Digging for Survival and/or Justice? The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana
Oiling the Wheels of Multi-Party Politics in Africa
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |