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State Funding Of Political Parties In Ghana: Exploring The Views Of Card-Holding And Non-Card Holding Party Members, Emmanuel K. Sakyi, Kinsley S. Agomor
State Funding Of Political Parties In Ghana: Exploring The Views Of Card-Holding And Non-Card Holding Party Members, Emmanuel K. Sakyi, Kinsley S. Agomor
African Social Science Review
Although Ghana has made significant progress in the establishment and consolidation of democratic politics since 1992, the vexatious issue of the use of scarce public resources to support political party activities remained unresolved. Using quantitative data an attempt is made in this study to examine the views of Ghanaians on the arguments for and against state funding of political parties. The data for the study was obtained through survey of 1600 self-declared card-holding and 200 self-declared non-card holding members of the seven political parties that contested the 2012 general elections. Convenience and stratified sampling procedures were deployed for the selection …