Author(s)

Joseph Obosi

Department of Political Science & Public Administration, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

The paper has investigated the impact which the resurgence of consultants has had on the role of the universities in Public policy research. The assumption was that the involvement of private consultants at the expense of the university faculty in the policy process has interfered with the very reason why the research institutes especially at the public universities were created. Using a comparative analysis, we carried out an interview of 13 consultants drawn from public universities in East and West Africa based on the trend of the public policy research done by consultants either as private consultants or as a member of university team. The study established that the resurgence of the consultants in the public policy making has compromised the role of public universities in public policy research to the extent that more public policy researches are done by private consultants at the expense of public institutions/universities.

Consultants, Public Policy Research, Public Universities, Policy Making Process

Obosi, J. (2023) The Impact of the Resurgence of Consultants on the Role of the Universities in Public Policy Research. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 1-18. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.118001.