The role of International Civil Society Organizations in democratization: A crisp-set QCA approach to anti-corruption in Ghana.

ABSTRACT: An anti-corruption strategy is essential in the process of continuous democratisation for effective governance. The objective of our study is to examine the mechanisms that contribute to an effective anticorruption strategy in a case study of civil society organisations in Ghana. These CSO cases illustrate the efforts of non-state actors to promote democracy in their interactions with Ghana's government. A model of anticorruption strategy and the crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (cs-QCA) method were employed to examine 264 cases of local civil societies in Ghana that responded to questions on the conditions for an effective anticorruption strategy. Our results indicate that no single condition is sufficient as an anti-corruption strategy. However, the role of international civil

SUBMITTER: Graham EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655974 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature