Political Financing in Developing Countries A Case from Ghana | Development Studies

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This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office-and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay. Political Financing in Developing Countries focuses on Ghana in depth a country often held up as an example of a successful two-party democracy with regular party changes in government. However it is unlikely that candidates and political parties are wealthy enough to finance the increasing costs of campaigns and constituent demands and successful democratic outcomes could be masking a system that actually hinders development progress. Drawing on ne…