© Kamla-Raj 2004                                                                             J. Hum. Ecol., 16(3): 173-180 (2004)

 

 

A Theoretical Review of Core Issues on Public Policy and

its Environment

 

S.T. Akindele and O.R. Olaopa

 

Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,

Osun State, Nigeria

 

KEYWORDS Environment. Definitional Pluralism. Public Policy Hierarchy. Policy Formulation. Rational Activity. Policy Impact

 

ABSTRACT The centrality of public policy to human governance has been theoretically examined in this paper. In doing this, its core issues that have long attracted the attentions of scholars and practitioners all over the world were analytically perused giving relevance to the strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats operating within the environmental space that usually surrounds the policy process, and its executors.

Consequent on this, the indispensability of the environment and its multidimensional forces to a problem-free public policy process are identified giving recognition to their futuristic implications.

 

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