In 1993 a new democratic order was initiated in Ghana. In 1997 the
elected Government ran its full mandate and was re-elected, for the
first time infour decades. The authors in this volume question the
prevailing trendsand tendencies in the country's democratisation
process. Given its historyof incomplete transitions, a thorough analysis
of the extremely complexnature of the Ghanaian transition process was
needed to look at previousand existing orders. The papers in this
collection identify and discussthe interplay of factors impinging on the
current process: the intertwinedrelationships between economic and
political liberalisations, theinstitutional and non-institutional
structures in the emergence ofnational mass consciousness and movements,
and the connections between themilitary, party politics and chances of
sustainable democratictransitions.