Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication

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.

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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