The politics of municipal fragmentation in Ghana

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Abdulai Kuyini Mohammed

Abstract

The scholarly debate over the rival merits of local government consolidation and fragmentation is an old but enduring one. However, in this debate very little attention has been focused on the political dimension of council amalgamation and fragmentation – yet political considerations play a central role in both the formulation and outcomes of de-concentration policy. The purpose of this article is to fill a gap in the literature by examining local government fragmentation in Ghana from 1988 to 2014. The article does this by identifying the key players and analysing their interests and gains, as well as the tensions arising from the fragmentation exercise. The implications from the Ghanaian case for more general theories of fragmentation are drawn out.

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Mohammed, A. K. (2015). The politics of municipal fragmentation in Ghana. Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, (16-17), 168-189. https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.v0i0.4493
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Research and Evaluation (peer-reviewed)
Author Biography

Abdulai Kuyini Mohammed, University of Ghana

Department of Political Science University of Ghana Legon, Accra