Systemic Analysis of Social Scientists Policy Research and Economic Reforms in Nigeria

Sikir Abidemi Abdulsalam, Pardee Rand Graduate School of Policy Studies/Ahmadu Bello U niversity Zaria

Abstract

Despite numerous policy research institutes, organizations and social research in Nigeria, social outputs seem to have contributed little to policy articulation and formulation process. This feeble interface between knowledge base and policy formulation reduces the latter to a subject of intuitive judgment. This paper uses a schematic analysis approach to examine the relationship between policy space, social scientist and economy performance in Nigeria. The paper found that the input of policy research which should necessarily underscore economic reforms is inadequate and not effective. These adverse weaknesses are assumed to have substantiated the economic downtrodden in Nigeria. We recommend that the limited interface between research knowledge and policy needs to be bolstered by improving direct contact between the users and producers.