Sustainable governance: social media and voter realignment, the case of Ghana Online publication date: Mon, 05-Sep-2022
by Adasa Nkrumah Kofi Frimpong; Li Ping; Samuel Adu-Gyamfi; Millicent Amoah
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management (IJTPM), Vol. 22, No. 3, 2022
Abstract: The study shows how sustainable governance is desirable as Citizen Centrism, activated by an inevitable 'social contagion' via the shared experiences of desperate citizens on the internet. Through established methodology, this study will show how such a system could work well in third-world countries, not only in Western democracies and countries where technology is quite developed. However, the results suggest that such electronic gatherings (Social Contagion), cum causa, may lead to more educated voters in Sub-Saharan Africa, using 1198 responses from Ghana. The results from the research suggest that there exists interdependence between sustainable governance, social media use, voter realignment, and online/offline political participation. The political use of SM (PUS) and government information affects voter realignment and online and offline political participation. We found a positive association between SM and access to government information.
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