LIST OF PANELS

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a panel devoted to the "Policy Making between challenges and opportunities: An African Perspective". The panel welcomes submissions on various aspects of the policy making process in Africa.

While considerable attention has been paid to various characteristics of African political system (party systems, party system instability, governance, good governance, corruption) or to how such characteristics affect policy making in the African continent, much less attention has been paid to studying public policies from an African perspective. The purpose of the panel is to provide participants with an opportunity to analyze the policy making process from a plurality of perspectives by employing not only concepts and methods developed to study highly institutionalized political systems but by employing also conceptual tools and methodologies elaborated by African policy analysts to grasp the intricacies and the complexities of policy making in the region. By bringing in an African perspective the panel plans to make a contribution to furthering our understanding of public policy and policy making in the African continent.