Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in the Global South
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9781032901480
Routledge
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2025
760 pages
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26165
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This important new handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of contemporary public policy and governance in the Global South. It offers incisive comparative analyses and presents policy-specific case studies from across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa. The aim is to inform future governance research, policy, and practice in these regions.
Description
This book is timely as it responds to how governments in the Global South are dealing with recent complex series of challenges and crises of the 21st Century. These range from the pressures of a global pandemic to the impacts of climate change, democratic backsliding, deteriorating public services, and the realignments in the international political economy following the rise of China. In doing so, it reflects on the political transformations, global convergences, and underlying regional, as well as national, trajectories that have taken place recently, focusing on among others:
- Democratic governance and institutional trust
- Public service delivery, motivation, and governance outcomes
- Policy crises, disaster management, and climate change
- Policy successes and failures
- Policy innovations, digitalisation, and policy research in the Global South
Different authors bring together varied and specialised perspectives and experiences, which are important for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers wishing to understand emerging governance models, innovations, and challenges within the Global South.
Praise and Reviews
"This timely handbook provides an invaluable addition to the literature on public policy developments in the Global South. By bringing together expertise from the Global South, it covers a broad scope of issues in this region, such as democratic governance, political trust, global public policy and governance, comparative public policy and performance, public service delivery, policy innovations and digitalization, gender policy, and crisis management. It provides much-needed South-South comparative analyses between countries also, including local government and regionalism. This volume is a major contribution to integrating a fragmented literature in this field. It offers scholars and practitioners a means to navigate many of the complex public policy challenges in the Global South."-------------------------------
Per Lægreid, Professor Emeritus. Department of Government, University of Bergen, Norway.-------------------------------
"This Handbook explores governance and policy challenges unique to the Global South. Featuring perspectives from local authors, it addresses issues such as democratic backsliding, gender reforms, digital governance, and climate adaptation. In development studies, contributions from global South authors are vital to ensure relevant and actionable insights. This handbook integrates theory and practice, offering comparative case studies and practical solutions. It is essential reading for scholars and policymakers aiming to tackle complex challenges and foster equitable progress in a dynamic global context."-------------------------------
Gabriel Cepaluni, Associate Professor, São Paulo State University, Brazil.-------------------------------
"The handbook compiles the governance and policy discussions of the Global South into a single volume. It cautions against applying Global North perspectives to analyze governance and policy trends while treating the Global South as a uniform entity. In summary, the volume offers significant insights into governance and public policy discussions in the Global South."-------------------------------
Winnie V. Mitullah, Research Professor & UNESCO UNITWIN Chair, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya.-------------------------------
"Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in the Global South presents a much-needed collection of perspectives and insights that inform public policy theory and practice from the vantage of Global South. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, this volume examines pressures of the pandemic, climate change, democratic backsliding and eroding public trust in governments due to inefficient public service delivery within the shifting contours of the global political economy. The handbook offers unique perspectives that question the dominant paradigms, share indigenous experiences and explores the varied policy challenges across Asia, Africa, Latin America and beyond. Grounded in contextual realities and global interdependencies, this book is an essential reference for academics, policymakers and students seeking to decolonize public policy and advance inclusive frameworks for policy design and practice."-------------------------------
Yaamina Salman, Professor, Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
About the Author
Gedion Onyango is a research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA). Gedion has over a decade of teaching experience and postgraduate student mentorship in higher education. He has taught at the University of Nairobi, where he was a senior lecturer, and at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Gedion’s research is highly interdisciplinary, covering legislative policy-making, public accountability reforms, anti-corruption and whistleblowing reforms, democratic innovation, and innovative technologies (digital technologies in designing public services). He has published extensively and has consulted in these areas.
Ishtiaq Jamil is a professor at the Department of Government, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include administrative culture, gender development, public policy, institutional trust, representative bureaucracy, and governance. He has co-edited and written several books, journal articles, chapters, and research reports. He has also organised and coordinated several international projects and conferences on governance, civil service, gender mainstreaming, service delivery, and public policy in South Asia.
Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in the Global South
This important new handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of contemporary public policy and governance in the Global South. It offers incisive comparative analyses and presents policy-specific case studies from across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa. The aim is to inform future governance research, policy, and practice in these regions.
Description
This book is timely as it responds to how governments in the Global South are dealing with recent complex series of challenges and crises of the 21st Century. These range from the pressures of a global pandemic to the impacts of climate change, democratic backsliding, deteriorating public services, and the realignments in the international political economy following the rise of China. In doing so, it reflects on the political transformations, global convergences, and underlying regional, as well as national, trajectories that have taken place recently, focusing on among others:
- Democratic governance and institutional trust
- Public service delivery, motivation, and governance outcomes
- Policy crises, disaster management, and climate change
- Policy successes and failures
- Policy innovations, digitalisation, and policy research in the Global South
Praise and Reviews
"This timely handbook provides an invaluable addition to the literature on public policy developments in the Global South. By bringing together expertise from the Global South, it covers a broad scope of issues in this region, such as democratic governance, political trust, global public policy and governance, comparative public policy and performance, public service delivery, policy innovations and digitalization, gender policy, and crisis management. It provides much-needed South-South comparative analyses between countries also, including local government and regionalism. This volume is a major contribution to integrating a fragmented literature in this field. It offers scholars and practitioners a means to navigate many of the complex public policy challenges in the Global South."-------------------------------
Per Lægreid, Professor Emeritus. Department of Government, University of Bergen, Norway.-------------------------------
"This Handbook explores governance and policy challenges unique to the Global South. Featuring perspectives from local authors, it addresses issues such as democratic backsliding, gender reforms, digital governance, and climate adaptation. In development studies, contributions from global South authors are vital to ensure relevant and actionable insights. This handbook integrates theory and practice, offering comparative case studies and practical solutions. It is essential reading for scholars and policymakers aiming to tackle complex challenges and foster equitable progress in a dynamic global context."-------------------------------
Gabriel Cepaluni, Associate Professor, São Paulo State University, Brazil.-------------------------------
"The handbook compiles the governance and policy discussions of the Global South into a single volume. It cautions against applying Global North perspectives to analyze governance and policy trends while treating the Global South as a uniform entity. In summary, the volume offers significant insights into governance and public policy discussions in the Global South."-------------------------------
Winnie V. Mitullah, Research Professor & UNESCO UNITWIN Chair, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya.-------------------------------
"Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in the Global South presents a much-needed collection of perspectives and insights that inform public policy theory and practice from the vantage of Global South. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, this volume examines pressures of the pandemic, climate change, democratic backsliding and eroding public trust in governments due to inefficient public service delivery within the shifting contours of the global political economy. The handbook offers unique perspectives that question the dominant paradigms, share indigenous experiences and explores the varied policy challenges across Asia, Africa, Latin America and beyond. Grounded in contextual realities and global interdependencies, this book is an essential reference for academics, policymakers and students seeking to decolonize public policy and advance inclusive frameworks for policy design and practice."-------------------------------
Yaamina Salman, Professor, Institute of Administrative Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
About the Author
Gedion Onyango is a research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA). Gedion has over a decade of teaching experience and postgraduate student mentorship in higher education. He has taught at the University of Nairobi, where he was a senior lecturer, and at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Gedion’s research is highly interdisciplinary, covering legislative policy-making, public accountability reforms, anti-corruption and whistleblowing reforms, democratic innovation, and innovative technologies (digital technologies in designing public services). He has published extensively and has consulted in these areas.
Ishtiaq Jamil is a professor at the Department of Government, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include administrative culture, gender development, public policy, institutional trust, representative bureaucracy, and governance. He has co-edited and written several books, journal articles, chapters, and research reports. He has also organised and coordinated several international projects and conferences on governance, civil service, gender mainstreaming, service delivery, and public policy in South Asia.
