The price of a seat: Financial barriers and the structural quality of Ghana’s Parliament
Picture a Member of Parliament handed an eighty-page bill on the morning of the vote. Somebody has to tell him what it says. If he cannot read it himself, that somebody will usually be a whip, a minister’s aide, or a person with a stake in the outcome, and the vote he casts will belong to them with his name…
Picture a Member of Parliament handed an eighty-page bill on the morning of the vote. Somebody has to tell him what it says. If he cannot read it himself, that somebody will usually be a whip, a minister’s aide, or a person with a stake in the outcome, and the vote he casts will belong to them with his name…