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"The Transfer of Power Between Presidential Administrations examines the problems that can occur when a new president enters the office. This book will be of interest to students of modern American politics, the modern presidency, and international relations"--

The conspicuous shift in public opinion on issues of race, branded in 2019 as the "Great Awokening," has reached an all-time high with protests in over 140 U.S. cities after Floyd's murder of May 25, 2020. But will the current resurgence in protests lead to enduring change?

The problems of authority and legitimacy experienced by postcolonial states are often explained in terms of a 'colonial legacy'. This is examined, in the case of Ghana, by analysing changes in the kinds of legitimacy claimed by the state from the colonial period through decolonisation to independence. Concludes that, whilst the most enduring legacy of colonialism was the attempt to found legitimacy in particularistic, indigenous systems of law, the decolonisation process failed to transfer any one of the new, competing cliams to legitimacy which emerged. (Abstract amended)

The problems of authority and legitimacy experienced by post-colonial states are often explained in terms of a 'colonial legacy'. The validity of this hypothesis is examined, in the case of Ghana, by analysing changes in the kinds of legitimacy claimed by the state from the colonial period through decolonization to independence. It is concluded that, whilst the most enduring legacy of colonialism was the attempt to found legitimacy in particularistic, indigenous systems of law, the decolonization process failed to transfer any one of the new, competing claims to legitimacy which emerged. Nationalism, of its very nature, was precluded from claiming authority on the basis of expertise in being European, and was also led to deny the validity of indigenous cultures. Representative democracy too was contradictory in so far as its results often challenged the nationalists' conception of a nonethnic national identity. Ultimately neither democracy nor 'being African' was a sufficient basis for the legitimacy of the new state.

The problems of authority & legitimacy experienced by postcolonial states are often explained in terms of a colonial legacy. The validity of this hypothesis is examined in the case of Ghana by analyzing changes in the kinds of legitimacy claimed by the state from the colonial period through decolonization to independence. It is concluded that, while the most enduring legacy of colonialism was the attempt to found legitimacy in particularistic, indigenous systems of law, the decolonization process failed to transfer any of the new, competing claims to legitimacy that emerged, including nationalism & representative democracy. Modified HA