ON PAGE 187 OF "THE PRESIDENT GHANA NEVER GOT"
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In many ways, even beyond the judiciary, the Akufo-Addo administration has acted out some despotic tendencies as described by two Harvard University professors. In their book, How Democracy Dies, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt said the following, which resonates with some actions of the Akufo-Addo government:
"This is how elected autocrats subvert… See moreON PAGE 187 OF "THE PRESIDENT GHANA NEVER GOT"
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In many ways, even beyond the judiciary, the Akufo-Addo administration has acted out some despotic tendencies as described by two Harvard University professors. In their book, How Democracy Dies, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt said the following, which resonates with some actions of the Akufo-Addo government:
"This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy –
packing and 'weaponizing' the courts and other neutral
agencies, buying off the media and the private sector
(or bullying them into silence) and rewriting the rules of
politics to tilt the playing field against opponents. The
tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism
is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy – gradually, subtly, and even legally – to kill it." See less
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