Journal Articles

Acheampong, M. (2026). How Constituency Gatekeepers Shape Parliamentary Behaviour in Ghana, African Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adag017

Richter, T., Llanos, M., Kuehn, D., Acheampong, M., Arellano, E., Song, E., (2025). Personnel, Institutions and Power: Revisiting the Concept of Executive Personalisation, Democratization. 1-25 https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2025.2551068

Acheampong, M. (2025). Legislators Between the Throne and the House: Traditional Authority and the Constituency Focus of Ghanaian MPs, ParliamentaryAffairs. 1-24 https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaf049

Banchani, J. P. S., Paalo, S. A., Acheampong, M., Kipo-Sunyehzi, D. D., & Dramani, A. (2025). The Challenge of Attaining Resilient Local Structures in Grassroots Peacebuilding: A Study of Post-1994/95 Peacebuilding in Northern Ghana. GlobalSociety, 39(3), 398-419.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2024.2435066

Acheampong, M. (2022). Is Ghana’s Democracy counterproductive to its Development? An Analysis of democratic short-termism and the politics of Development Planning in Ghana, Journal of Developing Country Studies, 12(2): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.7176/DCS/12-2-01

Acheampong, M. (2021). Legislators’ pathway to power in Ghana: Intra-party competition, clientelism and legislator – constituents’ relationship, The Journal of Legislative Studies, 27(2): 300-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2020.1814514

Boateng, F. G., Nortey, S., Asamanin, B. J., Dwumah, P., Acheampong, M., & Ackom-Sampene, E. (2016). Collapsing Microfinance Institutions in Ghana: An Account of How Four Expanded and Imploded in the Ashanti Region, International Journal of African Development: 3(2).

Book Chapter

Acheampong, M. (2026) Elite loyalty, legislative productivity, or constituency service: Where lies the reward in intra-party competition in Ghana? In Democracy at the Crossroads: Challenges for Governance and Representation, Essays in Honor of Thomas Saalfeld inJorge M. Fernandes and Javier Martınez-Canto (Eds), West European Politics series, Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003660248-7

Others

Acheampong, M. (2023). The Legislators’ Dilemma: (In)Formal Institutions, External Patronage and the Local-Elite-Centeredness of Parliamentary Representation in Africa’s Emerging Democracies, University of Bamberg Press. https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-57790.

Llanos, M., Kuehn, D., Richter, T., Acheampong, M., Song, E., Arellano, E. (2024). Personnel, Institutions and Power: Revisiting the Concept of Executive Personalisation, GIGA Working Paper 339/2024.