Situation Report: The Power of Regional Economic Communities: predicting future trends and mitigating the phenomenon of unconstitutional power alteration, Linda Darkwa and Philip Attuquayefio

Political power is one of the keenly contested resources in both developed and developing countries. Although historical evidence suggests that different forms of competition existed for the contestation of power, there is today, a large consensus that democracy is the acceptable format for political power contestation. Democracy is underpinned by a number of principles which include inter alia, periodic change of power based on a constitutional order. Thus, when power alternation occurs outside the agreed upon constitutional framework, it is
considered unconstitutional.