Includes index and bibliography.

Contents: A decade of liberalism in perspective -- Trends in the promotion and protection of human rights under the 1992 Constitution -- Challenges of economic growth in a liberal economy -- Markets and liberal democracy -- Institutions and economic performance: Ghana's experience under the fourth Republic, 1992-2002 -- Political conflict and elite consensus in the liberal state -- A decade of political leadership in Ghana, 1993-2004 -- The security agencies and national security in a decade of liberalism -- Organized labour and the liberal state -- The liberal Ghanaian state and foreign policy: the dynamics of change and continuity -- Women and politics in Ghana 1993-2003.