AGENDA SETTING AND PUBLIC POLICY IN AFRICA
Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies
Series Editors
JOHN MUKUM MBAKU
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
MWANGI S. KIMENYI
The University of Connecticut, USA
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Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa
Edited by
KELECHI A. KALU
First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Agenda setting and public policy in Africa. - (Contemporary perspectives on developing societies)
1. Political planning - Africa 2. Africa - Politics and government 3. Africa - Economic policy
I. Kalu, Kelechi Amihe
320.6096
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Agenda setting and public policy in Africa / edited by Kelechi A. Kalu.
p. cm. -- (Contemporary perspectives on developing societies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-3708-5
1. Africa--Economic policy. 2. Africa--Economic conditions--1960- 3. Africa--Social conditions--1960- 4. Africa--Politics and government--1960- I. Kalu, Kelechi Amihe. II. Series.
HC800.A624 2003
320.6096--dc22
2003058286
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3708-0 (hbk)
Contents
Kelechi A. Kalu
Valentine Udoh James
John Mukum Mbaku
Kelechi A. Kalu
Robert Dibie
Patience Idaraesit Akpan-Obong
Cynthia Theresa Cook
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Andrea Merrick
Robert Dibie
Moses K. Tesi
Andrew I.E. Ewoh
Julius O. Ihonvbere
Patience Idaraesit Akpan-Obong, Ph.D. received her doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2002. She specializes in Comparative Politics (Developing Countries) and International Relations, with emphasis in Feminist International Relations, Critical Theory and the intersection of globalization and new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Akpan-Obong has taught courses in the areas of the Politics of Globalization, and The Third World in Global Politics and Social Change. She has a diverse professional and academic background, having worked as a journalist for several years in Nigeria and Canada.
Cynthia Theresa Cook, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her Masters Degree in Sociology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Texas Womans University. Her research interests are in medical sociology and demography focusing on womens issues.
Robert Dibie, Ph.D. is Professor of Public Administration and African Politics. Dr. Dibie is the Director of the Public Administration Program at Western Kentucky University. He has authored three books including Public Management and Sustainable Development in Nigeria (Ashgate, 2003). He has also published extensively in refereed journals in the area of public policy, public administration, sustainable development and political institutions in developing nations. Among his recent journal articles are Nigerian Public Administrators Perception of the Importance of Managerial Skills, International Journal of Public Administration (2002) and Consociationalism and Ethnic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa (2001).
Andrew I.E. Ewoh, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He has published articles in Policy Studies Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Southeastern Political Review and numerous scholarly journals. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the African Social Science Review.
Julius O. Ihonvbere, Ph.D. has authored, edited and co-edited more than fifteen books on several aspects of African and Third World Politics and has published well over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. Professor Ihonvbere was until 2002 a Program Officer with the Ford Foundation, New York. Professor Ihonvbere currently serves as President of the African Center for Constitutionalism in Lagos, Nigeria.
Valentine Udoh James, Ph.D. is a Professor of Public Policy in the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and the Interim Chair of the Public Administration Dept. James has authored and edited several books on resource management and sustainability in Africa and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA) an online journal.
Kelechi A. Kalu, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado. He is the author of
