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Investigate why successive reform programs failed to dismantle colonial institutional arrangements across public administration, market systems, financial institutions, and education in Ghana.

August 20, 2026Cogent Social SciencesOpen Access

Colonial legacies and institutional persistence in Ghana: a historical institutional analysis

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ATAli TaşBakırçay Üniversitesi

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Comparative historical analysis uncovers the persistence of colonial structures in Ghana, suggesting reform actors unintentionally reproduce inherited institutional logics.

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Investigate why successive reform programs failed to dismantle colonial institutional arrangements across public administration, market systems, financial institutions, and education in Ghana.
Conducted a comparative historical analysis across pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods (1957–1990).
Applied path dependency theory, historical institutionalism, and institutional logics perspectives to evaluate institutional stability and change.
Identified British colonisation as a critical juncture driving endogenous colonial reproduction across multiple political regimes.
Showed that inherited institutions persist through conversion, drift, and layering as socialised domestic actors inadvertently reproduce colonial logics despite reform intentions.

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Ali Taş (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b5ff8a91293e6a1cd9f7 https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2026.2717435

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Comparative historical analysis uncovers the persistence of colonial structures in Ghana, suggesting reform actors unintentionally reproduce inherited institutional logics.

Colonial legacies and institutional persistence in Ghana: a historical institutional analysis

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Colonial legacies and institutional persistence in Ghana: a historical institutional analysis

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