In new democracies, what strategies do legislators adopt in pursuit of political survival? We argue that where the provision of development and public goods is in short supply relative to demand and politics is deemed clientelistic, citizens nevertheless have well-defined expectations of roles...

Ghana's recent status as an oil producer focuses attention on the relationship between domestic politics and transnational actors. While the political settlements literature is useful for focusing on how elite coalitions shape the governance of natural resources it is not explicit about the role...

Da die traditionellen Herrscher (die 'chiefs'), die politisch in die britische Kolonialherrschaft eingebunden waren ('indirect rule'), es nicht schafften, sich eine ländliche Massenbasis aufzubauen, verloren sie im Zuge des Dekolonisierungsprozesses die Macht sehr schnell an die städtischen...

This is an empirical case study of "street-level" officials in a classic "regulatory" public agency: the Environmental Health Department in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana, where privatization and contracting-out of sanitary services have imposed new ways of working on Environmental Health Officers....