Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa : implementing the Africa Mining Vision

2021-03-19T19:47:00Z

Cet article applique le concept de paradigme de politiques et les travaux de Peter Hall à l'analyse du changement politiques en Afrique subsaharienne en examinant le processus de mise en oeuvre de la
Vision minière pour l'Afrique (AMV), adoptée par les chefs d'État de l'Union africaine en 2009. À cette fin, il s'appuie sur les expériences de plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Il suggère que nous devons
accorder une attention particulière à trois facteurs qui sont trop souvent négligés dans la littérature sur les changements de paradigmes et les changements de politiques : (1) les relations entre les acteurs transnationaux et nationaux, (2) les relations de pouvoir asymétriques et (3) la mise en oeuvre des politiques.

Daniel Béland, Bonnie Campbell, Mylène Coderre & Privilege Haang'andu
(2021) : Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa : implementing the Africa Mining Vision, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, DOI : >https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2021.1886955]

Ideas and Policy Implementation: Understanding the Resistance against Free Health Care in Africa

2014-03-06T00:00:00Z

Daniel BÉLAND, Ph.D. (University of Saskatchewan)
Valéry RIDDE, PhD (University of Montreal)

Abstract
The main objective of this article is to draw attention to the potential role of ideas in policy implementation, an issue that has been relatively neglected in the contemporary literature on ideas and public policy. First, the article presents a review of this literature, which stresses the limited attention to implementation among students of policy ideas. Next, the article illustrates its main claims about the role of ideas in policy implementation through a discussion of policy implementer resistance against the removal of health-care user fees currently taking place in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to making a contribution to the study of ideas in public policy, the article helps fill a gap in the literature on health and policymaking in Africa, in which studies about policy implementation remain rare. It is hoped this exploratory article will trigger more research on the relationship between the ideas of actors and policy implementation processes, in Africa and well beyond.

Acknowledgments
The authors thank Bonnie Campbell, Bernard Taverne, Lucy Gilson and Pierre-Marc Daigneault for their comments and suggestions. Daniel Béland acknowledges support from the Canada Research Chairs Program and Valéry Ridde from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en développement international et société (CIRDIS)

Policy change and paradigm shifts in Sub-Saharan Africa : implementing the Africa Mining Vision

Ideas and Policy Implementation: Understanding the Resistance against Free Health Care in Africa