‘Judicialization of corruption’ in Ghana: an analysis of how Ghanaians view the Office of the Special Prosecutor

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politikon Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/02589346.2023.2197295

I. Owusu-Mensah, Enock Mathapoly-Codjoe

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ABSTRACT Anti-corruption agencies in Ghana have failed over the years to deal with corruption and also take decisive steps in tackling the menace. For this reason inter alia, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in 2018 established the Office of the Special Prosecutor as an institutional response to deal assertively with the issue of corruption. This action expanded the scope and discourse on the fight against corruption in Ghana. Following from this, the paper conceptualised the new institutional endeavour to control corruption in Ghana, simply as the ‘judicialization of corruption’. By judicialization of corruption, the paper meant to portray a phenomenon where there is the use of judiciary and judicial processes in fighting corruption. Coming on the back of a political campaign promise, the paper seemly tested Ghanaian voters’ view on this new anti-corruption arrangement by the government and puts forward a broad-spectrum of views by voters regarding the creation of the OSP. The paper used mixed method to triangulate both qualitative and quantitative data. The result showed majority of voters backing government's idea to create the OSP albeit a sizeable number perceiving the OSP as a mere conduit to ‘witch-hunt’ erstwhile government officials.

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加纳的“腐败司法化”:分析加纳人如何看待特别检察官办公室

多年来，加纳的反腐败机构在处理腐败问题上失败了，也没有采取果断措施来应对这一威胁。出于这个原因，新爱国党(NPP)政府于2018年设立了特别检察官办公室，作为积极处理腐败问题的制度性回应。这一行动扩大了加纳反腐败斗争的范围和话语。从这一点出发，本文将加纳控制腐败的新制度努力概念化，简单地称为“腐败的司法化”。通过将腐败司法化，本文意在描述一种利用司法和司法程序打击腐败的现象。在政治竞选承诺的背景下，这篇论文似乎是在试探加纳选民对政府这项新的反腐败安排的看法，并提出了选民对建立OSP的广泛看法。本文采用混合方法对定性和定量数据进行三角测量。结果显示，大多数选民支持政府创建OSP的想法，尽管相当多的人认为OSP只是一个“迫害”前政府官员的渠道。

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Politikon POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.90

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32 weeks

期刊介绍： Politikon focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world" leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntingdon, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa"s leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa"s constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999.