ABSTRACT
This Handbook provides an authoritative and foundational disciplinary overview of African Public Policy and a comprehensive examination of the practicalities of policy analysis, policymaking processes, implementation, and administration in Africa today.
The book assembles a multidisciplinary team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers and policy experts working inside and outside Africa to analyse the historical and emerging policy issues in 21st-century Africa. While mostly attentive to comparative public policy in Africa, this book attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions:
- How can public policy be understood and taught in Africa?
- How does policymaking occur in unstable political contexts, or in states under pressure?
- Has the democratisation of governing systems improved policy processes in Africa?
- How have recent transformations, such as technological proliferation in Africa, impacted public policy processes?
- What are the underlying challenges and potential policy paths for Africa going forward?
The contributions examine an interplay of prevailing institutional, political, structural challenges and opportunities for policy effectiveness to discern striking commonalities and trajectories across different African states.
This is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding how African countries are governed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
Research, theory and teaching African public policy
part II|84 pages
Understanding policy framing in Africa
chapter 11|11 pages
Traditional chiefs as institutional entrepreneurs in policymaking and implementation in Africa
part III|34 pages
Understanding public policymaking in Africa
chapter 17|9 pages
The media and policymaking in Africa
part IV|48 pages
Understanding policy reforms in Africa
chapter 19|13 pages
Rationales for and policy implications of implementing semi-autonomous revenue authorities in sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 20|10 pages
Evolution and change of communication policy in postcolonial Africa
part V|66 pages
Understanding politics and public policy in Africa
chapter 23|12 pages
Political parties, political change and public policy in Africa
chapter 25|12 pages
Executive policymaking during national crisis
chapter 26|9 pages
Political leadership and public policy in Africa
chapter 27|11 pages
Public policy and election administration in Africa
part VI|71 pages
Understanding policy implementation outcomes in Africa
chapter 28|11 pages
Democratising policy implementation in Africa
chapter 29|12 pages
Competing interests and lack of policy ownership of the reform agenda
chapter 31|12 pages
The politics of decentralisation
chapter 33|12 pages
Policy learning and policy failure in Africa
part VII|38 pages
Implementing education policies in Africa
chapter 35|12 pages
Public-private partnerships as predictors of success
chapter 36|12 pages
Policy issues in the harmonisation of quality assurance systems for higher education in Africa
part VIII|39 pages
Understanding health policies and disease control in Africa
chapter 37|11 pages
Control programmes for Africa's parasites
chapter 38|11 pages
Between marketisation and public interest discourses in health policy delivery
chapter 39|15 pages
Confronting epidemics
part IX|35 pages
Understanding food security and social protection policies in Africa
part X|50 pages
Understanding women, gender and public policy in Africa
chapter 44|12 pages
Gender mainstreaming in Africa
part XI|35 pages
Understanding crisis management,migrationand regional trade policies
chapter 47|11 pages
Public policy and disaster management
part XII|61 pages
Understanding emerging policy issues and challenges in Africa