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Politics Without Principles, Ghana

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Synonyms

Corruption; Failed leadership; Politics without principles

Definitions

Politics without principles :

Gandhi submitted that “when politicians (or anyone else, for that matter) give up the pursuit of truth, they, or in the case of parties, would be doomed.”

Socioeconomic development :

Socioeconomic development refers to the social and economic indicators such as health, education, gross domestic product (GDP), foreign direct investment (FDI), technology, and life expectancy rates which are linked to the development of the society (Sewell et al. 2017).

Introduction

Among the seven deadly social sins proposed by Mahatma Gandhi is politics without principles (Gandhi and Gunsky 1990). Politics without principles emerged during the twentieth century in one of Gandhi’s weekly newspaper publications called the Young India in 1925 (Gandhi 1939). It has been a striking description of what occurred in sometime past and is recently reoccurring in some developed and developing countries....

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  1. Department of Political Science, MountCrest University College, Accra, Ghana

    Franklin Akosa

  2. Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

    Bossman E. Asare

  3. Department of Public Administration, University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana

    Akua Pokuaa Essah-Koli

  4. MountCrest University College, Accra, Ghana

    Portia Oware Twerefoo

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    Ali Farazmand

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Akosa, F., Asare, B.E., Essah-Koli, A.P., Twerefoo, P.O. (2018). Politics Without Principles, Ghana. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3590-1

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