Lauren M. MacLean is Dr. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life and Department Chair of Political Science at Northeastern University. She is author of Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa, (with Melani Cammett) The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare, (with Diana Kapiszewski and Benjamin L. Read) Field Research in Political Science, and (with Gustavo García-López and Prakash Kashwan) Climate Justice in the City (forthcoming).

"Lauren MacLean shows that reliable electricity is not only fundamental to a prosperous economy but intimately tied to successful democracy too."—Todd Moss, Executive Director, Energy for Growth Hub"In this creative and insightful book on Ghana's persistent electricity crisis, Lauren Maclean carefully demonstrates how power literally begets power, in both senses of the word, with inequality in access to reliable electricity a function of much deeper forms of inequality in citizens' ability to make effective bottom-up claims on the state. This is important reading for scholars and students of service delivery, citizenship, and grassroots politics in Ghana and beyond."—Noah Nathan, author of The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland"This is a great book, based on very solid and extensive research, on a topic that is both pointed in terms of its occurrence and also evergreen in its relevance as controversy and debates over access to electricity have and continue to plague Ghana. . . . MacLean draws on a wide range of sources . . . [and] in doing so, she seeks to create a book that is interdisciplinary in its methods and broad in its audience, seeking to engage academics, policymakers, activists, and practitioners alike by providing straightforward explanation for this ongoing crisis."—Jennifer Hart, author of Making an African City"This is an excellent book that makes three important contributions. First, it introduces a theory of citizenship based on reciprocity, thereby revising social contract theory. Second, it traces the history of electricity provision in Ghana and analyzes it in the context of energy poverty and the era of climate change. Third, it integrates unique methodologies (some of which are used in disciplines outside of the social sciences) to center the perspectives of ordinary people in the study of politics and development. For these reasons, Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana will be of great interest to students of comparative politics, African politics, development studies, and environmental studies."—Jeffrey W. Paller, author of Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa

• AcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroductionPart I: The Historical Construction of the State Role in Providing Unequal Electricity to Citizens and Subjects1. The History of Electricity as a Right of Citizenship: From Colonial Subjects to Neoliberal Consumers in the Fourth Republic2. New Pressures on Ghana's Emerging Democracy: Climate Change and Increasing Frustrations by Citizens as Consumers3. Desperate Efforts to End the Electricity Crisis: The Cost of Foreign Non-State Providers and Promise of Green EnergyPart II: The Unequal Experience of the Electricity Crisis and Negotiation of Citizenship as Reciprocity4. The Unequal Citizen Experience of the Electricity Crisis5. The Emotional Stress of Disconnection for the Youth: Images and Lyrics from Contemporary Ghanaian Artists and Musicians6. Inequalities of Citizen Protest: From #Dumsormuststop to Harassment7. Inequalities of Citizen Exit: From Solar Generators to Illegal Connections8. The Right to Electricity and the Strain on Citizenship as ReciprocityConclusion: Inequality and the Decline of the National GridAppendix: Interview GuidesBibliographyIndex

Lauren M. MacLean is Dr. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life and Department Chair of Political Science at Northeastern University. She is author of Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa, (with Melani Cammett) The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare, (with Diana Kapiszewski and Benjamin L. Read) Field Research in Political Science, and (with Gustavo García-López and Prakash Kashwan) Climate Justice in the City (forthcoming).

"Lauren MacLean shows that reliable electricity is not only fundamental to a prosperous economy but intimately tied to successful democracy too."—Todd Moss, Executive Director, Energy for Growth Hub"In this creative and insightful book on Ghana's persistent electricity crisis, Lauren Maclean carefully demonstrates how power literally begets power, in both senses of the word, with inequality in access to reliable electricity a function of much deeper forms of inequality in citizens' ability to make effective bottom-up claims on the state. This is important reading for scholars and students of service delivery, citizenship, and grassroots politics in Ghana and beyond."—Noah Nathan, author of The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland"This is a great book, based on very solid and extensive research, on a topic that is both pointed in terms of its occurrence and also evergreen in its relevance as controversy and debates over access to electricity have and continue to plague Ghana. . . . MacLean draws on a wide range of sources . . . [and] in doing so, she seeks to create a book that is interdisciplinary in its methods and broad in its audience, seeking to engage academics, policymakers, activists, and practitioners alike by providing straightforward explanation for this ongoing crisis."—Jennifer Hart, author of Making an African City"This is an excellent book that makes three important contributions. First, it introduces a theory of citizenship based on reciprocity, thereby revising social contract theory. Second, it traces the history of electricity provision in Ghana and analyzes it in the context of energy poverty and the era of climate change. Third, it integrates unique methodologies (some of which are used in disciplines outside of the social sciences) to center the perspectives of ordinary people in the study of politics and development. For these reasons, Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana will be of great interest to students of comparative politics, African politics, development studies, and environmental studies."—Jeffrey W. Paller, author of Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa

• AcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroductionPart I: The Historical Construction of the State Role in Providing Unequal Electricity to Citizens and Subjects1. The History of Electricity as a Right of Citizenship: From Colonial Subjects to Neoliberal Consumers in the Fourth Republic2. New Pressures on Ghana's Emerging Democracy: Climate Change and Increasing Frustrations by Citizens as Consumers3. Desperate Efforts to End the Electricity Crisis: The Cost of Foreign Non-State Providers and Promise of Green EnergyPart II: The Unequal Experience of the Electricity Crisis and Negotiation of Citizenship as Reciprocity4. The Unequal Citizen Experience of the Electricity Crisis5. The Emotional Stress of Disconnection for the Youth: Images and Lyrics from Contemporary Ghanaian Artists and Musicians6. Inequalities of Citizen Protest: From #Dumsormuststop to Harassment7. Inequalities of Citizen Exit: From Solar Generators to Illegal Connections8. The Right to Electricity and the Strain on Citizenship as ReciprocityConclusion: Inequality and the Decline of the National GridAppendix: Interview GuidesBibliographyIndex