Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Samuel Gyasi Obeng; Debrah, Emmanuel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics), the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent issues on democratization, elections and electioneering campaigns and the constitution of order in an African context. The strategies through which political actors and the media speak about important policy issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, education, and finance during presidential sessional addresses and political campaigning are also elucidated. The extent of political ecologies' impact on general elections, on policy issues, and on split-ticket voting (especially what causes it to happen and its impact on who gets elected and the consequent impact on party unity or disintegration) are also given scholarly attention. Also elucidated are is the entwinning of language, power, liberty, ideology and representation and issues deemed politically nerve wrecking and capable of entrapping political actors and causing the citizenry to either lose confidence in them or even call for their resignation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216331117
• Artikelnr.: 74841147

Autorenporträt

Samuel Gyasi Obeng is Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University-Bloomington (USA). He is also an affiliated faculty in the School of Global and International Studies and a faculty of Indiana University's Honors Program. Emmanuel Debrah is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana. He specializes in electoral and party politics, local government and decentralization, public policy, and democratic governance.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Preface and Acknowledgments
Dedication
Chapter 1. Introduction
Samuel Gyasi Obeng and Emmanuel Debrah
PART ONE: GHANAIAN POLITICS
Chapter 2. Ghana's Political Environment and the 2016 General Election
Emmanuel Debrah, University of Ghana
Chapter 3. Election Campaign in Ghana's 2016 National Elections
Seidu Alidu, University of Ghana
Chapter 4. Communicating with the Electorate in the 2016 Elections: Did the
Political Parties and their Candidates Lean on the Issues?
Richard Asante, University of Ghana
Chapter 5.(Mis)Coordination: Why Would Ghanaian Political Actors and
Political Parties Encourage Split-Ticket Voting?
Samuel Darkwa, University of West Virginia
Chapter 6. Are Members of Parliament in Ghana Responsive to their
Constituents in Policy Making? Evidence from the National Health Insurance
Scheme
Hassan Wahab, University of Ghana
PART TWO: GHANAIAN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Chapter 7. When Government Is Unaware It Is Incommunicado
Margaret I. Amoakohene and Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh, University of Ghana
Chapter 8. Pragmatic Analysis of First Person Pronoun Deixes in President
Nana Akuffo Addo's 2018 State of the Nation's Address (SONA)
Kofi Agyekum, University of Ghana
Chapter 9. Discursive Construction of the Representative Claim in UK and
Ghanaian Parliamentary Discourse
Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah, University of Cape Coast
Chapter 10. How Much Communication is in Ghanaian Presidents' State of the
Nation Addresses?
Margaret I. Amoakohene, University of Ghana
Chapter 11. Power, Domination and Manipulation in Students' Parliamentary
Discourse in Ghanaian University
Dora F. Edu-Buandoh and Nancy Boahemaa Nkansah, University of Cape Coast
Chapter 12. The Role of Music in Ghanaian Political Communication
Kofi Agyekum, Joshua Alfred Amuah and Hilarius Mawutor Wuaku, University of
Ghana
Chapter 13. President Akufo-Addo's Address to the Nation on the US-Ghana
Military Co-operation Agreement: A Political Communicative Functional and
Framing Analytic Approach
Etse Sikanku, Frank Kofi Boadi, Halisa Aziz and Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour,
University of Ghana
Chapter 14. Language and Liberty in the Ghanaian Political Ecology: A Brief
Overview
Samuel Obeng, Indiana University
Epilogue
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