تنظیم دستور کار و سیاست عمومی در آفریقا (چشم‌اندازهای معاصر بر جوامع در حال توسعه)

Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa examines how decision makers have managed and mismanaged public policy issues in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses the neglected issue of how ideas about public policy are generated, by whom and for what purpose. Persistent problems such as political instability, environmental pollution, famine, hunger, desertification, rent-seeking and incessant intra-conflicts across the continent are explored in a systematic and structured manner. Each contributor proffers convincing solutions to clearly identified problems. Well-researched and solution orientated, this book will engage scholars and policy makers who are interested in public policy and development issues in Africa. Twelve contributions from scholars from North America and Africa examine why post-colonial African states continue to struggle with issues of political and economic development and offer suggestions for how they may be better governed. A sampling of topics includes public sector management policies in sub-Saharan Africa, prospects for sustainable development in Nigeria, and economic policy and forest loss in Cameroon. Kalu teaches political science at the U. of Northern Colorado. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR With the collapse of communism as an alternative economic system to free market ideas and policies in the late 1980s, and early 1990s, scholars and policy makers across the world but especially in Africa have had to grapple with redefining their thinking space, framework and ideological approaches to scholarship, and policy making.