Asante, G., Gajduschek, G., & Bartha, A. (2024). A social problem or a sacred promise? Explaining the mechanisms driving fee-free educational policy change in Ghana. Policy Studies, Online first, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2024.2373058 (Q1, IF: 2.2)

Explaining policy change has been one of the major concerns of educational policy studies. Guided by the multiple streams framework (MSF), this article aims to explain the specific dynamics of cost-elimination policies at the high school level in Ghana. Although the problem stream contributed to the opening of the policy window during agenda-setting and the problem and the policy streams played a non-negligible role in policy adoption, the study argues that the electoral interests of political actors were the main driver of the adoption of fee-free educational policies.

Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2024.2373058