Democracy for all or a few?
On Monday, July 7, 2025, the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) launched the Democracy Capture Index report, a project I have been involved in. The findings make one wonder whose interests democracies on the continent serve. Is it democracy for all or democracy for the few? Even more concerning are the identified actors actively […]
DEMCAP Report 2025: The Many Faces of Democracy Capture in Africa
Democracy capture refers to the intentional attempts by various actors, driven either by personal or partisan motive, to get institutions/agencies to do their bidding. This inaugural Democracy Capture (DemCap) report presents a comprehensive analysis of how democratic institutions/agencies are systematically being undermined. The report draws on data from 370 institutions across 10 African countries—Benin, Botswana, […]
DEMCAP Report 2025: Key Insights at a Glance
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Democracy Capture in Africa (Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria)
Democracy Capture refers to the way in which interconnected processes of clientelism, neo-patrimonialism, the personalization of politics and state capture impact on the democratic process – and highlights how the image of democracy is used to legitimate this process. On this understanding, a country can be said to have experienced Democracy Capture when: The political […]
