Critical perspectives in politics and socio-economic development in Ghana
By: edited by Wisdom J. Tettey, Korbla P. Puplampu, and Bruce J. Berman.
Contributors: Tettey, Wisdom.; Puplampu, Korbla P.; Berman, Bruce, 1942-
Series: African social studies series -- v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
Subjects: Democratization -- Ghana; Indigenous peoples -- Ghana; Ghana -- Politics and government -- 1979-; Ghana -- Economic policy
Other titles: Critical perspectives on politics and socio-economic development in Ghana
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-447) and index.
Table of contents: title: Capitalism incomplete: state, culture and the politics of industrialization / Bruce J. Berman; title: Local government, decentralization and state capacity in Ghana / Joseph R.A. Ayee; title: The mass media, political expression and democratic transition / Wisdom J. Tettey; title: Ethnicity and the development of national consciousness: a human factor analysis / Senyo Adjibolosoo; title: State-NGO relations and agricultural sector development / Korba P. Puplampu; title: The implications of state policy for micro-enterprise development / Peter Arthur; title: "A plurality of resistances" to economic reform: the case of state-owned enterprises / Edna D. Djokoto-Asem; title: Creative allocation of space as a response to economic crisis / Kobena T. Hanson; title: Demographic processes, economic growth and socio-economic development in Ghana, 1960-2000 / Baffour K. Takyi, Isaac Addai; title: Chiefs in their millennium sandals: traditional authority in Ghana: relevance, challenges and prospects / Donald I. Ray; title: Land tenure and agricultural development in Ghana: the intersection of class, culture and gender / Louis Awanyo; title: Citizenship, customary law and gendered jurisprudence: a socio-legal perspective / Charlotte Kesson-Smith, Wisdom J. Tettey; title: Is culture the obstacle to development in Ghana? A critique of the culture-development thesis as it applies to Ghana and South Korea / Henry M. Codjoe; title: Critical teaching in an African context: local knowledge and educational reforms / George J. Sefa Dei; title: Environmentalism and cultural change: the role of the mass media / Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo.