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A Peaceful Turnover in Ghana
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 12, Number 2, April 2001
- pp. 103-117
- 10.1353/jod.2001.0026
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With longtime ruler Jerry Rawlings obeying constitutional term limits, the opposition won a narrow electoral victory, bringing Ghana its first peaceful transfer of power since independence.