{"product_id":"ghanaian-politics-and-political-communication-9781786613691","title":"Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeploying their uncommon understanding of politics and society, the various contributors to this volume educate the reader on the multifaceted themes that have shaped Ghana’s political trajectories since the era of decolonization. In both the normative and paradigmatic contexts, the book successfully demonstrates that indeed, democracy is a lake; it acquires its particular character from the ecosystem. This is a must-read for all students of African politics. -- Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Professor of African History and Chair of Global Studies and Languages, Idaho State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue 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 Author Information","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042476753239,"sku":"9781786613691","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ghanaian-politics-and-political-communication-9781786613691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}