Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy

Contents:

1. Introduction
Paul Cairney and Robert Geyer

PART I: THEORY AND TOOLS
2. Complexity, Power and Policy
Graham Room

3. Complexity and Real Politics
Adrian Little

4. Critical Legal Studies and a Complexity Approach: Some Initial Observations for Law and Policy
Thomas E. Webb

5. 'What's the Big Deal?': Complexity Versus Traditional US Policy Approaches
Michael Givel

6. Can We Discover the Higgs Boson of Public Policy or Public Administration Theory? A Complexity Theory Answer
Goektu? Morcoel

7. The Policymaker's Complexity Toolkit
Jim Price, Philip Haynes and Mary Darking, Julia Stroud, Chris Warren- Adamson, Carla Ricaurte-Ouijano

8. Effective Policy Making: Addressing Apparently Intractable Problems
Eve Mitleton-Kelly


PART II: METHODS AND MODELLING FOR POLICY RESEARCH AND ACTION
9. Complexity Theory and Political Science: Do New Theories Require New Methods?
Stuart Astill and Paul Cairney

10. Complexity Modelling and Application to Policy Research
Liz Johnson

11. Policymaking as Complex Cartography? Mapping and Achieving Probable Futures Using Complex Concepts and Tools
Kasey Treadwell Shine

12. The Role of Models in Bridging Expert and Lay Knowledge in Policy-Making Activities
Sylvie Occelli and Ferdinando Semboloni

13. Modelling Complexity for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
Bruce Edmonds and Carlos Gershenson

14. Using Agent-Base Modelling to Inform Policy for Complex Domains
Mirsad Hadzikadic, Joseph Whitmeyer and Ted Carmichael

PART III: APPLYING COMPLEXITY TO LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY
15. Local Government Service Design Skills Through the Appreciation of Complexity
Catherine Hobbs

16. Managing Complex Adaptive Systems to Improve Public Outcomes in Birmingham, UK
Tony Bovaird and Richard Kenny

17. Brazil and Violent Crime: Complexity as a Way of Approaching 'Intractable' Problems
Kai Enno Lehmann

18. Educating for Equality: The Complex Policy of Domestic Migrants' Children in China
Qian Liu

19.The Emergence of Iintermediary Organizations: A Network-based Approach to the Design of Innovation Policies
Annalisa Caloffi, Federica Rossi and Margherita Russo

20. Complexity Theory and Collaborative Crisis Governance in Sweden
Daniel Nohrstedt

21. Going for Plan B- Conditioning Adaptive Planning. About Urban Planning and Institutional Design in a Non-linear, Complex World
Gert de Roo

22. Complexity and Health Policy
Tim Tenbensel

23. A Case Study of Complexity and Health Policy: Planning for a Pandemic
Ben Gray

24. How useful is Complexity Theory to Policy Studies? Lessons from the Climate Change Adaptation Literature
Adam Wellstead, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner

25. Agent Based Modelling and the Global Trade Network
Ugur Bilge

26. The International Financial Crisis: The Failure of a Complex System
Philip Haynes

CONCLUSION
27. Where does Complexity and Policy Go from Here?
Paul Cairney and Robert Geyer

Index

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• Políticas da governo central
• Teoria e ciência política
• Administração pública

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