This tome deals with the democratic transitions in Africa, drawing on the Ghanaian experience of re-democratization in 1992. Ghanaian politics underwent a most rapid process of transformation between 1992 and 2000. Two developments, elites and mass struggles for political and economic incorporation respectively and external pressures, played a dominant in this process. In fine, the nature and extent of political participation in a neopatrimonial, albeit democratizing polity, is the subject of inquiry. The assumption that is advanced and tested is that political participation in Ghana is low,...