Political Science Answers

Why would a voter support a third party in a majoritarian two party system

A. To protest two main parties

B. Because laws require that more than two parties be represented

C. To help from a coalition of several parties

How does Maoism differ from Confucianism?

A. Maoism emphasized the individual rather than collective society as a whole

B. Maoism rejected the idea of harmony and argued that authoritarian government would always be necessary to suppress class conflict

C. Confucianism rejected the idea of authority and encouraged personal independence.

The debate on the dichotomy of Politics and Public Administration has been going on

since the time of the former US President Woodrow Wilson. Explain what this means

highlighting the differences as well as the similarities of the two disciplines.

In 1957, Ghana gained political independence from British colonial rule and begun

the process of building a post-colonial Public Administration system. As Ghana

prepared for post-colonial rule, Governor Sir Charles Arden-Clarke made the

following important statement, ‘This is a critical time for the Gold Coast---- the Gold

Coast is about to make a great constitutional advance. The world --- is asking whether

the people of the Gold Coast have the capacity and the determination to shoulder their

new responsibilities and undertake the complex task of building up and carrying on a

good government under a new constitution’. What is Ghana’s answer to the world?

Discuss.

The evolution of Public Administration in Ghana began with ‘a Chieftaincy

Administration’ which was practiced before the arrival of the Europeans. In the

process, the British introduced what could loosely be referred to as a ‘Traditional-

Federal’ State. To what extent do you think that this change in the systems of

governance was inevitably leading to a ‘Democratic’ system of governance in Ghana?

‘In a democratic Republic, the elected officials must retain the favourable opinions of

the citizens, and their efforts to influence organisations will reflect this need’. Discuss

how the interaction between civil society and Elected Officials may help to facilitate

this position.

In 1916, Governor Clifford told the educated Natives of the Gold Coast to stop the

‘loose talk on the subject of representative government’ and innovate an indigenous

practical proposal of nation-building ‘which would be applicable to local conditions’.

Discuss the implications of this statement in the context of the development of

modern Public Administration in Ghana.

In 1926, Governor Gordon Guggisburg also stated that ‘‘if the people of the Gold

Coast are ever to stand by themselves, it must be by the gradual development of their

own institutions and customs to meet the demands of more modern and advanced

civilisation’’. What led to this statement and the result of it.

1. The rise and fall of the empires such as Mapungubwe, The Carthage.The Great Zimbabwe and Sudan in Africa.