Engendering National Public Policy Through Global Governance: An Assessment Of Ghana’s Domestic Violence Legislation As A Trans-sovereign Transnational Issue

ABSTRACT This research examines the relationship between global governance, global public policy and Ghana's national public policy in reference to the passing of the Domestic Violence Bill. It further assesses to what extent global governance can address the trans-sovereign transnational issue of violence against women, specifically domestic violence. The independent variables in this research project are global governance and global public policy with political environment and the “second wave” of democracy in Africa as the intervening variables and national public policy as the dependent v…