LEGISLATORS ROLE IN PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND AGENDA SETTING IN PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS IN NIGERIA.

Adebola Ishola

doi:10.21474/ijar01/8657

Abstract

06Mar 2019 LEGISLATORS ROLE IN PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND AGENDA SETTING IN PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS IN NIGERIA. Adebola Ishola , Ngozi Nwogwugwu , PhD , Chibuzor Nwaodike , PhD and Michael Ogu , PhD. The authors are of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Highlights

Policy formulation in developing countriesMost of policy sciences have known that the policy formulation uses the concept of policy design to emerge in response to implementation studies of policy systems which responsible for policy failure in 1970s-1980s
Policy formulation clearly is a critical phase of the policy process which is an explicit subject of policy design
In order to operate on the research question, that who does the policy design? And what are the motivation and participation of different actors with their entrances of new actors with new ideas who will play their roles in the policy design process? The research worked on the key variables such as dominant idea set and number of idea sets in the policy communities and variables of dominant actor and number of members in shaping the structure and behavior of policy networks

Summary

Policy formulation in developing countries

Most of policy sciences have known that the policy formulation uses the concept of policy design to emerge in response to implementation studies of policy systems which responsible for policy failure in 1970s-1980s. In policy formulation, the relevant actors are usually restricted to members of policy subsystems, since a requirement of participation at this stage of the process is some minimal level of knowledge in the subject area, allowing an actor to comment, at least hypothetically, on the feasible of options put forward to resolve policy problems (Howlett and Ramesh, 2003) This is necessary for developing countries to define the policy regime as the dominant actor is belonged to state, but not from the civil society; the limitation of participation of the civil society is popular. The wave of scholars use policy tools documents as trends away from direct provision of government services and toward measures that embed government officials in complex collaborative relationships with other levels of government, private-sector actors, and non-government organizations These arrangements grant government parties much greater discretion than the close supervision and regulation of the past (Salamon, 2002). Mechanisms of transparency and accountability can preferentially include the poor to empower them with respect to competing interests and potential allies (WB, 2007) by bringing stakeholders together at different levels to participate in stakeholder analysis workshops and other forms of groupbased assessment, creates additional institutional spaces for discussion about policy change

Discourse of policy communities in developing countries

Policy network

Conclusions