Overview
- Highlights how individual level characteristics impact civic engagement and democratic governance
- Combines measures of the personality traits, social class, and political knowledge in an African context
- Provides a glimpse at the efforts by Ghana’s National Commission for Civic Education
Part of the book series: Development, Justice and Citizenship (SIID)
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About this book
This book explores how community influences civic engagement, focusing on the case of Ghana. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective to those studying psychology, political development and civic engagement in African countries. Previous research has shown that the social and economic context in which an individual interacts influences their political behaviors and attitudes, and that personal characteristics account for differences in political behavior and attitudes. This work moves away from the cultural demographics of a person, which often take center stage in existing investigations of partisan political behavior in the African context, and addresses the following five questions:
(1) To what extent do individual traits influence civic engagement in Ghana?
(2) To what extent is community identity similar or different in small rural villages versus large metropolitan areas in Ghana and how does community identity influence civic engagement?
(3) To whatextent does trust influence civic engagement in Ghana?
(4) What factors and activities influence political knowledge and how does political knowledge influence civic engagement?
(5) What is the status of women in civic engagement?Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kevin S. Fridy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampa, Florida. He specializes in West African politics and works on projects dealing with the interactions between society and political institutions. His work has been published in African studies and political science journals such as Journal of Modern African Studies, Democratization, African Affairs, African Studies Quarterly, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and Journal of African Elections. He has traveled extensively throughout West Africa conducting his research. He teaches courses on African politics, as well as a travel course to Ghana with a focus on political and economic develop development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community, Civic Engagement and Democratic Governance in Africa
Book Subtitle: The Case of Ghana
Authors: Mary R. Anderson, Kevin S. Fridy
Series Title: Development, Justice and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97741-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97740-5Published: 26 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97741-2Published: 25 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-3599
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3602
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 134
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, Educational Policy and Politics, Political Sociology, Psychology, general, Governance and Government, Development Studies