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Collaborative Governance And Anticorruption In Postwar Monrovia, Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh
Collaborative Governance And Anticorruption In Postwar Monrovia, Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Public sector corruption is a major problem in Monrovia. Successive national
governments have instituted anticorruption measures in the 1970s and 2000s, and anticorruption agencies were established to eradicate corruption. However, there appears to be a significant lack of resources and political willpower to prosecute corrupt government officials. A failure to curb political corruption indicates that current policies are not working. Government works when there is a perception that it delivers results and that the needs and safety of the citizenry are protected. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenology study was to gain a deeper understanding of public sector corruption at …
The Effects Of Policy Gaps On Governance In Ghana, Jojo Benin
The Effects Of Policy Gaps On Governance In Ghana, Jojo Benin
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The need for governance institutions in Ghana to focus on policy results that impact directly on citizen's wellbeing rather than results that are achieved immediately after implementing program of activities has become more relevant than ever before due to widening policy gaps (the difference between policy intention and policy outcome) in Ghana. Defective policy implementation by the Ghanaian Civil Service is widening policy gaps in Ghana. With the aid of the institutional analysis and development framework, this quantitative study examined the relationship between policy gaps and governance in Ghana. Empirical data were collected from 539 Civil Servants in Ghana using …