The intersection of the rule of law and human rights is a critical issue in Nigeria, which has a complex history that includes periods of colonial rule, military dictatorship, and democratic transitions. The rule of law is essential for protecting human rights and promoting democracy. However, Nigeria’s history of military rule has left a legacy of human rights abuses and a weak rule of law. This has led to many challenges, including corruption, impunity, and a lack of access to justice. Despite...

Law  Public Policy 

Healthcare organizations operate in environments characterized by regulatory intensity, professional pluralism, technological disruption, and chronic resource constraints—conditions well described by complexity science. Traditional bureaucratic leadership models can secure reliability and compliance, yet they often suppress the interactional dynamics through which adaptation and inclusion emerge. This manuscript advances Complexity Leadership Theory (CLT) by integrating complex adaptive systems ...

Sociology  Public Policy 

Effective nutrition education is essential for promoting healthy dietary behaviors and lifelong well-being among school-aged children. In Ghana, basic schools provide a strategic platform for nutrition education, yet multiple barriers continue to undermine their effective delivery. This conceptual review synthesizes empirical literature, policy documents, and theoretical perspectives to examine the key structural, pedagogical, and institutional constraints affecting nutrition education in Ghanai...

Health Policy  Public Policy 

This paper examines the legislative evolution of vocational education policy in U.S. higher education, spanning from the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 to the Carl D. Perkins Act V of 2018. This study employs a historical-interpretive framework to assess five significant legislative measures—the Morrill Act, Smith-Hughes Act, Vocational Education Act of 1963, Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, and the Perkins Acts—focusing on their impacts on institutional identity, equality, and access. T...

Pedagogy  Public Policy 

Thinking about space and its temporal evolution to analyze, understand and manage sociocultural crises in the context of political domination is an approach that helps us understand the roles of different political and economic actors in internal conflicts. This places a premium on establishing methods using geographic technology to develop these approaches. In this context, this paper proposes a method of spatiotemporal analysis of urbanization strategies implemented by different political acto...

Public Policy  Human Geography 

The study reviews the effectiveness of public procurement methods in Ghana as enshrined in the Public Procurement Act. The study adopted a Systematic Literature Review for the purpose of reviewing the repeated challenges and current reforms within the procurement scenery. The aim of the review was to identify the challenges that undermine efficiency, transparency, and accountability within the public sector. Empirical and conceptual insights were synthesized from the 39 pools of selected sources...

Public Policy 

This study addresses the research question: What is the effect of higher education liberalization on the regional distribution of universities and educational attainment in Zambia? The analysis captures the transformative effects of liberalization policies on educational access and regional distribution using data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) across seven of Zambia’s ten provinces. We compare regions that established new universities with those that did not, estimating the averag...

Public Policy  Higher Education 

With the increasing number of schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in mainland China, a series of issues have emerged during its implementation. This paper compares the current situation of IBDP schools in mainland China, including their operations and the career paths of graduates, to explore several prominent problems, such as the elitism of IBDP in mainland China, the loss of IBDP graduates and educational capital, and the absence of national education wit...

Pedagogy  Public Policy 

This study aims to determine and analyze dynamic governance in reducing stunting, determine and analyze supporting and inhibiting factors of dynamic governance in reducing stunting, and determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of dynamic governance in reducing stunting in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. This study is based on the capability theory of dynamic governance by Neo and Chen (2007) in Syafri (2012: pp. 180-186), which constitutes three elements: ...

Public Policy  Demography 

This study aims to determine and analyze Rural Development Planning, to determine and analyze the supporting and inhibiting factors of Rural Development Planning, and to determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of Rural Development Planning for Local (Dayak) Community Villages in West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan. This study uses the Community-based Rural Development Planning Concept by Fernandes Simangunsong and Imelda Hutasoit (2021) as an analytic tool, which explain...

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