Compared to them, we are angels: Parliament, othering and the fight against corruption in Ghana.
Due to its supervisory responsibility over the executive and public institutions, including ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), Ghana's legislature has a mandate to check and fight corruption and make its practice a high risk, low-gain activity. The commitment, urgency and the willingness t...
| Publicado en: | Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 43 - 70 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=143165777&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 143165777 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 08550050 TD2 jtl: Legon Journal of the Humanities issn: 08550050 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2019 vid: 30 iid: 2 pid: 67187 pub: Pluto Journals artinfo: ui: 143165777 10.4314/ljh.v30i2.3 ppf: 43 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 4.9MB tig: atl: Compared to them, we are angels: Parliament, othering and the fight against corruption in Ghana. aug: au: Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo Arko, Joseph affil: Senior Lecturer Department of English University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Lecturer Department of English University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana su: Political corruption Government accounting Ghana sug: subj: Ghana Political corruption Government accounting keyword: content analysis evaluative language fight against corruption Ghanaian parliamentary discourse National Anti-Corruption Action Plan othering parliamentarians ab: Due to its supervisory responsibility over the executive and public institutions, including ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), Ghana's legislature has a mandate to check and fight corruption and make its practice a high risk, low-gain activity. The commitment, urgency and the willingness to fight corruption can be seen not only in creating the legislative framework for addressing corruption, promoting governmental accountability and acting as a check on the executive, but also in how the subject of corruption is broached in parliamentary debates and discussions, an area which relatively lacks scholarly attention. First, using an interpretive content analysis, this paper studies the approaches to the fight against corruption in Ghana by examining the Parliamentary Committee report on the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP) and, the debate thereof, in order to uncover the focus of the NACAP. Second, the paper examines Parliamentarians' use of evaluative language in parliamentary debates to enact otherness and how this othering affects the fight against corruption in Ghana. The paper finds that the NACAP suggests a three-pronged approach to the fight against corruption, viz: ethical/educational, multi-stakeholder and legal approaches. However, the implementation of these approaches has been ineffective due to certain Ghanaian cultural practices. Again, the paper finds that as a result of othering between government and opposition MPs, the fight against corruption is only incidental in parliamentary debates, indicating a low parliamentary commitment to the fight against corruption. Thus, the paper suggests that the fight against corruption must be taken away from the corridors of the Parliament of Ghana. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Legon Journal of the Humanities is the property of Pluto Journals and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Legon Journal of the Humanities holder: Pluto Journals dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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