Prof Kingsley S. Agomor

Department

Public Management and International Relations

Kingsley S. Agomor is an Associate Professor at the Ghana Institute Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and hold PhD in Political Science from the University of Ghana, Legon. He served as the Head of the Department of Public Management and International Relations at GIMPA. His research interests are in Electoral Politics, Governance, Leadership, Gender, and Public Administration. He teaches Theories of Governance and Leadership, Public Policy Making and Analysis, Local Government and Decentralization, Public Sector Management, and Gender. He successfully supervised 8 PhD, 94 Master’s degree theses in these subject areas. He has over 50 publications in peer reviewed local and international journals, book chapters, cases for teaching, conference proceedings, and technical papers and reports for local and international institutions. He participated in 27 international and 36 local conferences and won the Best Paper First Prize Award during 13^th International Conference on Public Administration, 2018 at Chengdu, China.

BA (Hons)
MPhil
PhD Political Science University of Ghana, Legon

Electoral Politics
Governance
Leadership
Gender
Public Administration.

Electoral Politics
Governance
Leadership
Gender
Public Administration.

Theories of Governance and Leadership
Public Policy Making and Analysis
Local Government and Decentralization
Public Sector Management
Gender.

Agomor, KS, Banini DK & Langnel Z (2023): Legislative electoral incumbent defeats: Cues from Ghana, The Journal of Legislative Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2226416

Agomor, K.S. Langnel Z. &Abubakari M. (2023) Reclaiming the Authority to Plan: Recentralization of COVID-19 Response in Ghana, International Journal of Public Administration, DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2023.2209827
Langnel L, Amegavi GB & Agomor KS (2021) Environmental degradation and female economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa: Effort towards Sustainable Development Goal 5, Development Southern Africa Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2020.1870933
Bondzi-Simpson PE and Agomor KS (2020) -Financing Public Universities in Ghana through Strategic Agility: Lessons from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management 22, 1–15 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-020-00254-6
Adaku E. Agomor KS, Amoatey C, and Tandoh-Offin P (2020) Regional Legislative Evaluation Capacity and the Oversight Function: A Diagnostic Study of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament Journal of Legislative Studies The DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2020.1848080
Agomor K.S., Adams S. and Asante W. (2020) Anatomy of Ghana’s Parliamentary Elections and Democratic Consolidation Journal of Contemporary African Studies DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2020.1774523
Sakyi E.K and Agomor K.S. (2020) Moonlighting in Ghana’s Higher Education Institutions: Exploring Lecturers’ Experiences at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education ISSN 2050-7003
Adams S. and Agomor K.S. (2019) Decentralization, Partisan Politics, and National Development in Ghana Public Organization Review(Springer) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-019-00442-8
Osei-Hwedie B. and Agomor S. (2018) Gender in Political Parties: Ghana’s 2016 General Elections. South African Journal of international Affairs (Routledge Taylor and Francis) DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2018.1526110
AgomorS. Adams S. and Taabazuing J. (2018) Rethinking Ghana’s Decentralization: Citizens’ Views on the Question of Electing or Appointing District Political Head. Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage) DOI: 10.1177/0021909618790642

Email: kagomor@gimpa.edu.gh