One Democracy, Two Partisan Views

Second, on overall satisfaction with democracy across ten rounds of the survey, NDC partisans have expressed, on average, higher satisfaction (74 per cent) when their party was in power and lower satisfaction (59 per cent) when in opposition.

In this piece, I examine how partisans of the two main political parties – the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP)- have answered certain key questions about the country’s democracy.

If you probe partisan Ghanaians about how our democracy is doing, two very different answers are likely to emerge, generally reflecting whether their preferred political party sits in government or in opposition.