The themes and their
categorisation into three groups (Agents, Structural Featues, and
Institutions), were based on prior work by Oxford Policy Management. In
the text analysis of the treatment of the themes by the studies, each
of the three groups of themes was discussed in turn, with reference to
particular countries where they were studied. However connections
between themes (on the basis of co-occurence in the same
countries) and between countries (on the basis of co-occurence
of themes in those countries) does not seem to have been attended to.
The network diagram below shows these linkages, as evident via a simple
two-mode network, based on the data provided in the Annex. In this
diagram countries are black squares and themes are circles. Red circles
are themes relating to Institutions, blue circle are themes relating to
Structural Features, and Green circles are themes relating to Agents.
What is interesting in this diagram are the two main clusters of
themes. The first at the top of the network diagram, and the second at
the bottom. And that these were not region specific (they both include
African and Asian countries). One question to ask here is to what
extent do these clusters reflect real differences in the "Drivers of
Change" in the countries studied, or they artefacts of the way the
studies were done. For example, as might arise from two different
authorships of the studies
