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, the book showcases issues of commonality and diversity in public policy with relevant analytical insights and real-life practical policy concerns that specifically addresses how citizens engage with the state, and how they think and function as social actors and collectivities within the socio-cultural settings of Africa. The book makes public policy come alive as a living, practical, and problem-solving discipline, with examples of how the diversity of public policy actors such as the legislature, governance architects, the media, and the judiciary, become arenas for policy contestation. Linking public policy to development paradigms, governance, and responsible citizenship, the book is important reading for students and scholars of public policy, governance, and politics in Africa, as well as practitioners.   weiterlesen