ADEREMI ADEWALE MICHAEL

Political Science

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Topic: Comparative Politics

Description: Theoretical and analytical studies of forms of government, political socialisation, political behaviour, political stability/instability

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (Political Science/ Political Economy)	Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom	2016

Democracy, Economic Growth and Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

The restoration of wholesale democratic praxis, the so-called Third Wave in Africa in the closing decades of the last century, coincided with significantly improved economic performance across the continent with several of the economies recording sustained growth rates some in double digits for up to a decade. Countries like Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Mauritius and Ghana among others have recorded impressive growth rates while giants like South Africa and Nigeria have become incipient economic power houses; the former reckoned among the BRICS block and the latter lately tagged in the MINT group. However, the seemingly positive correlation between civil rule and economic growth has not resulted in shared prosperity and improved living conditions. The study attempts to investigate why improved economic performance in Africa has failed to translate into inclusive-growth and economic transformation in spite of stable democratic rule. Precisely it would explore the postulation that for Africa to achieve widespread poverty eradication and more equitable distribution of resources, a system that transcends political democracy and traditional growth-deterministic models is required; a new political economy that seeks to eliminate socio-political and class fissures by nurturing broad based growth coalitions in the policy process and in the political decisions of how to distribute growth proceeds. Methodology : The project will be designed as longitudinal studies and will employ mixed methods; a combination of statistical data from leading databases and primary data from direct interviews with identified stakeholders including policy makers, political elites and representatives of civil society groups including labour, women, students and private sector. The analysis will be based on ENVIVO for the qualitative data and the SPSS for the quantitative and ANOVA will be used for testing variance of the data.

ADEREMI ADEWALE is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science

ADEREMI has a Ph.D in Political Science/ Political Economy from Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom