TY - JOUR
T1 - Democratic backsliding and public administration
T2 - the experience of Ghana
AU - Yeboah-Assiamah, Emmanuel
AU - Baidoo, Philip Asare
AU - Asamoah, Kwame
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Democratic backsliding has been a phenomenon occurring in many jurisdictions in the developed and developing world. Deploying a framework by Levitsky and Ziblatt [2018. How Democracies Die. New York: Penguin Random House], the study evaluates the nature of democratic backsliding in Ghana focusing on the strategies deployed by political leaders in Ghana to systematically erode and weaken professionalism in the public administration. The study uses relevant democracy indicators and datasets as well as other secondary data to establish a pattern of democratic backsliding in Ghana 2017–2023 with a corresponding impact on the quality of public administration and people’s declining trust in them. The study calls for constitutional measures to tame the excessive powers of the executive as well as active role of civil society to call government out to prevent some of the democratic backsliding tendencies.
AB - Democratic backsliding has been a phenomenon occurring in many jurisdictions in the developed and developing world. Deploying a framework by Levitsky and Ziblatt [2018. How Democracies Die. New York: Penguin Random House], the study evaluates the nature of democratic backsliding in Ghana focusing on the strategies deployed by political leaders in Ghana to systematically erode and weaken professionalism in the public administration. The study uses relevant democracy indicators and datasets as well as other secondary data to establish a pattern of democratic backsliding in Ghana 2017–2023 with a corresponding impact on the quality of public administration and people’s declining trust in them. The study calls for constitutional measures to tame the excessive powers of the executive as well as active role of civil society to call government out to prevent some of the democratic backsliding tendencies.
KW - Democratic backsliding
KW - neutrality
KW - professionalism
KW - public administration
KW - trust
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85215076030&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01442872.2024.2449362
DO - 10.1080/01442872.2024.2449362
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85215076030
SN - 0144-2872
JO - Policy Studies
JF - Policy Studies
ER -