Tag: Partisan Politics

The intense political debate over the effectiveness and future of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has taken a dramatic turn, with the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia ...

The national conversation over the proposed acquisition of new presidential jets and helicopters has once again exposed deep political divisions - with security analyst Richard Kumadoe urging leaders to elevate ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed heartfelt condolences to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) following the August 6, 2025, Ghana Air Force helicopter crash that claimed the lives of ...

True accountability, according to Professor Asare, requires that a government first be given time to govern before being assessed

The Minority Leader's recent criticisms of the Clerk to Parliament’s Appointments Committee have once again highlighted a disturbing trend in Ghana’s political landscape—one in which even fundamental principles of decency, ...

On the occasion of International Youth Day, Professor John Osae-Kwapong, a Democracy and Development Fellow at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and Project Director at The Democracy Project ...

In recent years, a growing chorus of well-meaning Ghanaians has raised alarms about the dangers posed by partisan politics and its associated winner-takes-all syndrome. Many believe that the binary struggle ...

Recent happenings in the Ghanaian political space have questioned the viability of democracy and how it could be used as a countermeasure to corruption. The general notion about democracy is ...

Professor Kofi Abotsi, the Dean of the School of Law at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), has highlighted the corrosive impact of partisan politics on Ghana's constitutionalism as ...

One obvious fruit that Ghana’s democracy seed has produced is partisan politics or patronage politics. Partisan politics, the tendency of strongly supporting a person, principle or political party, often without ...