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Public Policy in Ghana Conceptual and Practical Insights
Title
Public Policy in Ghana [electronic resource] : Conceptual and Practical Insights / edited by Michael Kpessa-Whyte, James Dzisah.
ISBN
9783031330056
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XXI, 309 p.)
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Summary
This book provides analytical, conceptual, and practical insights into how public policy processes and outcomes are conceptualized and framed. Drawing on Ghanaian experiences, but with extensive illustrations from other African countries, it showcases issues of commonality and diversity in public policy with analytical insights and real-life policy concerns that specifically addresses how citizens engage with the state, and how they think and function as social actors within the socio-cultural settings of Africa. The book brings public policy to life as a practical and problem-solving discipline, with examples of how policy actors such as the legislature, governance architects, the media, and the judiciary become arenas for contest. Linking public policy to development paradigms, governance, and responsible citizenship, it is important reading for students and scholars of public policy, governance, and politics in Africa, as well as practitioners. Michael Kpessa-Whyte is an Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. His research focuses on the nexus between partisan politics and public policy. James Dzisah is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana. His research focuses on knowledge production, globalization and development .
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
International Series on Public Policy,
Contents
Chapter 1- Introduction to Public Policy in Ghana: Conceptual and Practical Insights. Part I. Governance and Institutional Context of Public Policy
Chapter 2- The Context and Content of Public Policy in Africa
Chapter 3- Policy Capacity of the Legislature and Evidence-Informed Policy-making in Ghana: A Comparative Analysis Gedion
Chapter 4 - The Executive Arm of Government and Public Policy in Ghana
Chapter 5- It's Not Only About Value for Money: Evolution and Development of SOEs and the Making of State-Led Economic Development Policy in Ghana
Chapter 6- Trends, Drivers, and Complexities of Policy Change: The Case of Ghana's Narcotics Policy Landscape
Chapter 7- Ghana's Informal Automobile Repairs and Retail Sector
Part II. Actors, Knowledge and Policy Matters
Chapter 8- Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Public Policy Making
Chapter 9- Research and Knowledge in Policy Making
Chapter 10- Think Tanks as Collective Policy Entrepreneurs and the Art of Policy Making in Ghana
Chapter 11- Global pressures in policy making: Insights from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and Ghana's petroleum industry
Chapter 12- The Politics of 'Physics Envy' and the Coloniality of Policy Making
Part III. New Media, Public Opinion and Policy Publics
Chapter 13- Public Policy Making in the Age of New Media Wilberforce
Chapter 14- Political Delivery Marketing in Ghana
Chapter 15- Public opinion and the policy making process in Ghana's Fourth Republic
Chapter 16- An Analysis of Public Participation in Policy Making Processes. .
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