A recent study into Social Norms and Petty Corruption investigated the reasons why Ghanaians may engage in bribe paying, based on an original survey of 1,400 citizens. A third of Ghanaian citizens report that they have paid a bribe during the last year. The sectors that are most corrupt are the police, followed by electricity […]

Ghana has held six elections since returning to multiparty democracy in 1992 with three turnovers of power including, in 2016, the first defeat of a sitting incumbent. But multiparty elections are costly affairs for aspiring and current parliamentarians as this cost of politics research illustrates. Between 2012 and 2016 the cost of running for political […]