TY - CHAP
T1 - Multiplex Learning: An Evidence-Based Approach to Design Policy Learning Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa for the SDGs
AU - Turkeli, Serdar
AU - Wong, Pui Hang
AU - Yitbarek, Eleni
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Although most scholars acknowledged that development is a transnational process, existing discussions usually focus on negative externalities such as pollution, epidemics, violent conflicts and economic crises. This chapter considers a form of positive externality, knowledge spillovers and argues that countries can innovate in policymaking, both design and implementation, and achieve more sustainable forms of development by participating in a multiplex policy learning network. Furthermore, we emphasise that policy knowledge transfer should not be one-way, so global governance becomes a truly inclusive and interactive process. One fundamental problem to this end is the design of such multiplex policy learning networks. This chapter adopts an evidence-based approach to this problem. Using quantitative analysis, we identify performance-based clusters of status leaders, intermediates and followers in sub-saharan africa with respect to the constituents of indicator-based performances on each sustainable development goal (sdg), and offer a detailed contextualisation for multiplex policy learning in sub-saharan africa with a prospective design of an international conference agenda for sdgs.
AB - Although most scholars acknowledged that development is a transnational process, existing discussions usually focus on negative externalities such as pollution, epidemics, violent conflicts and economic crises. This chapter considers a form of positive externality, knowledge spillovers and argues that countries can innovate in policymaking, both design and implementation, and achieve more sustainable forms of development by participating in a multiplex policy learning network. Furthermore, we emphasise that policy knowledge transfer should not be one-way, so global governance becomes a truly inclusive and interactive process. One fundamental problem to this end is the design of such multiplex policy learning networks. This chapter adopts an evidence-based approach to this problem. Using quantitative analysis, we identify performance-based clusters of status leaders, intermediates and followers in sub-saharan africa with respect to the constituents of indicator-based performances on each sustainable development goal (sdg), and offer a detailed contextualisation for multiplex policy learning in sub-saharan africa with a prospective design of an international conference agenda for sdgs.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-14857-7_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-14857-7_26
M3 - Chapter
SP - 279
EP - 292
BT - Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals
PB - Springer, Cham
ER -