Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana The organization of the chapter is as follows. The first section leans on conceptual arguments – specifically the proposed link between media malaise and political efficacy – to suggest that the Ghanaian media have a particular and pressing stake in ensuring that the current constitutional order is preserved, and not subverted. The second section discusses the experiences of Kenya(in 2007/2008) and Côte d'Ivoire(since the abortive electoral outcome of 2010) where the media were blamed for being either instrumental accomplice or victim and unwitting pawn in the political violence that afflicted those two countries. Drawing on the two cases leads to a discussion of the potential of the Ghanaian media to cause(or contribute to) politically related conflict(even violence) in the country. The third section notes the growing concern about the increasing use of indecorous – and incendiary – language by and in the media. From the examples cited here, it can be argued that this development belies Ghana's reputation as an enduring oasis of electoral peace and democratic stability in West Africa. In conclusion, the chapter proposes some policy and capacity­building interventions for improving the ability of the media to support, rather than subvert, efforts to institutionalise multiparty democratic governance under the Fourth Republic in Ghana. Media Freedom and the Democratic Mandate Invoking a public interest-inspired paradigm of democratic theory, Garnham argued that the free access to and exchange of 213