CSPS seminar: What is the role of ideas in the policy process.
To close out the seminars for the 2021-2022 academic year, Prof. Daniel Beland delivered an insightful presentation on the place and movement of ideas in domestic and global policies.
To close out the seminars for the 2021-2022 academic year, Prof. Daniel Beland delivered an insightful presentation on the place and movement of ideas in domestic and global policies.
Ghana recently created more districts, partly as a way to deepen decentralisation. But is there evidence that decentralisation helps with poverty reduction. Dr. Victor Osei shows that it can but under certain conditions.
On 11 August, Prof. Gretchen Bauer contributed to our social policy seminar series. Does women's representation in governance matter? In a word, yes. Evidence from Africa and globally show that having more women in legislation has meant more attention to laws and policies that matter for women, including in family law, land rights and gender-based violence, among others.
We are accepting applications for the MA and PhD programmes in Social Policy Studies and also for the two-year, evening Masters in Research, Public Policy (MRPP).
Apply through the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) website.
Another in our biweekly seminar series: What happens when you import your onions from Niger and your tomatoes from Burkina? Questions about food policies, food policies and food security.
Our presenter is Professor Akosua Darkwah of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana.