POLICY RESEARCH IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: AN EXPLORATION

JUMA, CALESTOUS;CLARK, NORMAN

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPEMENT, n.º 2/1995, pág. 121

1. Introduction. 2. The nature of the policy sciences. 3. Metaphors of public policy. a) The mechanistic wold view-society as a machine. b) From linear to non-linear processes. c) Policy as arguments. d) Policy as social experiment. e) Policy as interactive learning. 3. The african context. a) Problem formulation or agenda setting. b) Policy formulation and forecasting. c) Experiments ...