05072nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-33005-6 DE-He213 20251030110854.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231215s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031330056 978-3-031-33005-6 10.1007/978-3-031-33005-6 doi JF1525.P6 JPP bicssc POL028000 bisacsh JPP thema Public Policy in Ghana [electronic resource] : Conceptual and Practical Insights / edited by Michael Kpessa-Whyte, James Dzisah. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXI, 309 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda International Series on Public Policy, 2524-731X 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. . 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 . Political planning. 57717 Africa Politics and government. 67669 Political science. 58714 Public Policy. 65508 African Politics. 67671 Governance and Government. 68280 Kpessa-Whyte, Michael. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68281 Dzisah, James. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 68282 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031330049 Printed edition: 9783031330063 Printed edition: 9783031330070 International Series on Public Policy, 2524-731X 68283 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33005-6 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 56828 56828