RETHINKING POLICY RESEARCH SPHERE: AN AGENDA FOR CITIZENS’ PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC POLICY MAKING PROCESS
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One major identifiable lacuna with public policy making process particularly, in the developing nations across the world has been linked to the inability of the policy making elites to establish the necessary frameworks capable of involving the citizens in the evolvement of policies which are meant to meet their desires and wellbeing. To this end, policies which ought to have the citizens as their primary focus, most times end up being at variance with the desires of the citizenry. This creates vacuums for discontentment while also rendering the relevance of policy research meaningless. This paper therefore, attempts to interrogate the place of policy research as a veritable tool in enhancing citizens’ participation towards evolving citizen-focused policy making process with the overall objective of promoting good governance, participatory democratic culture and accountability in the running of the affairs of states in the much of developing nations.
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