Overview
- Examines policy making processes and outcomes in Ghana
- Combines analytical insights with real-life practical policy concerns
- Draws on examples from other African countries to demonstrate commonality and diversity across the region
Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Governance and Institutional Context of Public Policy
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Actors, Knowledge, and Policy Matters
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New Media, Public Opinion, and Policy Publics
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About this book
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 address 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Kpessa-Whyte is 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Policy in Ghana
Book Subtitle: Conceptual and Practical Insights
Editors: Michael Kpessa-Whyte, James Dzisah
Series Title: International Series on Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33005-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33004-9Published: 16 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33007-0Due: 16 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33005-6Published: 15 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7301
Series E-ISSN: 2524-731X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 309
Topics: Public Policy, African Politics, Governance and Government