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Tradition and Transformation: Democracy and the Politics of Popular Power in Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Maxwell Owusu
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In April 1992, after nearly 11 years of military rule in Ghana, a draft democratic constitution of the Fourth Republic was overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum.1 The ban on multi-party politics was lifted by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Government in the following month. An independent interim National Electoral Commission was established, and a hotly contested presidential election in 200 constituencies monitored by teams of international observers was held in November 1992. After multi-party parliamentary elections to the National Assembly, boycotted unfortunately by opposition groups, the democratically elected Government of Ghana's Fourth Republic was inaugurated in January 1993.2

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 307 - 343
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