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Offering a state of the art overview, this Handbook is an essential read for postgraduate students and academically oriented policy practitioners, while those working in the broader field of public policy will find this book of great interest.

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Though its roots in the natural sciences go back to the early 20th century, complexity theory as a scientific framework has developed rapidly from the 1970s onwards. Since the 1990s, it has been increasingly integrated into the social sciences and public policy. The ground-breaking and wide-ranging Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy brings together the latest work from top academics, researchers and policy actors working with complexity and policy from Europe, North America, Brazil and China and organizes it into three clear and cohesive parts:Theory and ToolsMethods and Modelling for Policy Research and ActionApplying Complexity to Local, National and International Policy.With its distinctive combination of theory, methods and policy applications, comprehensive coverage of the field and state of the art overview, this Handbook is an essential read for students, academics and policy practitioners.Contributors include: S. Astill, U.Bilge, T. Bovaird, P. Cairney, A. Caloffi, T. Carmichael, M. Darking, G. de Roo, B. Edmonds, C. Gershenson, R. Geyer, M. Givel, B. Gray, M. Hadzikadic, P. Haynes, C. Hobbs, M. Howlett, L. Johnson, R. Kenny, K.E. Lehmann, A. Little, Q. Liu, E. Mitleton-Kelly, G. Morçöl, D. Nohrstedt, S. Occelli, J. Price, J. Rayner, C. Ricaurte, G. Room, F. Rossi, M. Russo, F. Semboloni, K. Treadwell Shine, J. Stroud, T. Tenbensel, C. Warren-Adamson, T.E. Webb, A. Wellstead, J. Whitmeyer

Author Biography

Edited by Robert Geyer, Professor of Politics, Complexity and Policy, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University and Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Division of History and Politics, University of Stirling, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:1. IntroductionPaul Cairney and Robert GeyerPART I: THEORY AND TOOLS2. Complexity, Power and PolicyGraham Room3. Complexity and Real PoliticsAdrian Little4. Critical Legal Studies and a Complexity Approach: Some Initial Observations for Law and PolicyThomas E. Webb5. 'What's the Big Deal?': Complexity Versus Traditional US Policy ApproachesMichael Givel6. Can We Discover the Higgs Boson of Public Policy or Public Administration Theory? A Complexity Theory AnswerGöktu Morçöl7. The Policymaker's Complexity ToolkitJim Price, Philip Haynes and Mary Darking, Julia Stroud, Chris Warren- Adamson, Carla Ricaurte-Ouijano8. Effective Policy Making: Addressing Apparently Intractable ProblemsEve Mitleton-KellyPART II: METHODS AND MODELLING FOR POLICY RESEARCH AND ACTION9. Complexity Theory and Political Science: Do New Theories Require New Methods?Stuart Astill and Paul Cairney10. Complexity Modelling and Application to Policy ResearchLiz Johnson11. Policymaking as Complex Cartography? Mapping and Achieving Probable Futures Using Complex Concepts and ToolsKasey Treadwell Shine12. The Role of Models in Bridging Expert and Lay Knowledge in Policy-Making ActivitiesSylvie Occelli and Ferdinando Semboloni13. Modelling Complexity for Policy: Opportunities and ChallengesBruce Edmonds and Carlos Gershenson14. Using Agent-Base Modelling to Inform Policy for Complex DomainsMirsad Hadzikadic, Joseph Whitmeyer and Ted CarmichaelPART III: APPLYING COMPLEXITY TO LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY15. Local Government Service Design Skills Through the Appreciation of ComplexityCatherine Hobbs16. Managing Complex Adaptive Systems to Improve Public Outcomes in Birmingham, UKTony Bovaird and Richard Kenny17. Brazil and Violent Crime: Complexity as a Way of Approaching 'Intractable' ProblemsKai Enno Lehmann18. Educating for Equality: The Complex Policy of Domestic Migrants' Children in ChinaQian Liu19.The Emergence of Iintermediary Organizations: A Network-based Approach to the Design of Innovation PoliciesAnnalisa Caloffi, Federica Rossi and Margherita Russo20. Complexity Theory and Collaborative Crisis Governance in SwedenDaniel Nohrstedt21. Going for Plan B- Conditioning Adaptive Planning. About Urban Planning and Institutional Design in a Non-linear, Complex WorldGert de Roo22. Complexity and Health PolicyTim Tenbensel23. A Case Study of Complexity and Health Policy: Planning for a PandemicBen Gray24. How useful is Complexity Theory to Policy Studies? Lessons from the Climate Change Adaptation LiteratureAdam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner25. Agent Based Modelling and the Global Trade NetworkUgur Bilge26. The International Financial Crisis: The Failure of a Complex SystemPhilip HaynesCONCLUSION27. Where does Complexity and Policy Go from Here?Paul Cairney and Robert GeyerIndex

Review

'Over recent years Complexity Science has revealed to us new limits to our possible knowledge and control in social, cultural and economic systems. Instead of supposing that past statistics and patterns will give us predictable outcomes for possible actions, we now know the world is, and will always be, creative and surprising. Continuous structural evolution within such systems may change the mechanisms, descriptors, problems and opportunities, often negating policy aims. We therefore need to redevelop our thinking about interventions, policies and policy making, moving perhaps to a humbler, more 'learning' approach. In this Handbook, leading thinkers in multiple domains set out these new ideas and allow us to understand how these new ideas are changing policymaking and policies in this new era.'

Review Quote

'Over recent years Complexity Science has revealed to us new limits to our possible knowledge and control in social, cultural and economic systems. Instead of supposing that past statistics and patterns will give us predictable outcomes for possible actions, we now know the world is, and will always be, creative and surprising. Continuous structural evolution within such systems may change the mechanisms, descriptors, problems and opportunities, often negating policy aims. We therefore need to redevelop our thinking about interventions, policies and policy making, moving perhaps to a humbler, more 'learning' approach. In this Handbook, leading thinkers in multiple domains set out these new ideas and allow us to understand how these new ideas are changing policymaking and policies in this new era.'

Details ISBN178254951X Author Paul Cairney Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN-10 178254951X ISBN-13 9781782549512 Publication Date 2015-05-29 Pages 496 Language English Year 2015 Format Hardcover DEWEY 320.6 Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2015-05-29 NZ Release Date 2015-05-29 UK Release Date 2015-05-29 Series Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series Edited by Paul Cairney Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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