A Politics of Failure

The Political Geography of Ghanaian Elections, 1954–1979

Bibliographic Data

ID8375686
AuthorsPeter Osei-Kwame (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), Paul J Taylor (0000-0003-4346-6364, Newcastle University), Peter J Taylor (0000-0002-9242-8658)
Year1984
Volume74
Issue4
Pages574-589
Publication date1984-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1984.tb01475.x
OpenAlexW2001963507
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited20

Although the geography of elections is a major growth point of modern geography, this research area has neglected an important category of elections, those occurring in Third World states. This paper seeks to rectify this limitation by analyzing Ghanaian elections. Studying such Third World elections, however, requires rethinking many theoretical issues on the nature of the state and the political party. This paper outlines a political economy argument for interpreting the electoral geography of Third World countries. The Ghanaian case study is set within a world-systems framework in which the location of peripheral states in the worldeconomy can result in an unstable “politics of failure.'’Ghana is treated as a classic case of the politics of failure. We show how the cultural geography of Ghana is filtered through its political geography in attempts to create a new economic geography

Economic geography · Geography · Political economy · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law

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