Decision-making under ambiguity and time constraints : assessing the multiple-streams framework / edited by Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Friedbert W. Rüb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zohlnhöfer, Reimut, editor.

Rüb, Friedbert W., 1953- editor.

Series:

Studies in European political science

ECPR - Studies in European political science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Decision making.

Political science.

Policy sciences.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

xvi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Assessing the multiple-streams framework

Place of Publication:

Colchester, United Kingdom : ECPR Press, 2016.

Summary:

Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable. So governments in advanced democracies often do not understand the problems they have to deal with and do not know how to solve them. Thus, rational problem-solving models are highly unconvincing. Conversely, the Multiple Streams Framework starts out from these conditions, which has led to increasing interest in it. Nevertheless, there has not yet been a systematic attempt to assess the potential of such scholarship. This volume is the first attempt to fill that gap by bringing together a group of international scholars to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the framework from different angles. Chapters explore systematically and empirically the framework's potential in different national contexts and in policy areas from climate change and foreign policy to healthcare and the welfare state.

Contents:

1. Reimut Zohlnhofer and Friedbert W. Rub: Introduction I. The Theoretical Assumptions of the Multiple Streams Framework

2. Harald Satren: Lost in Translation: Re-conceptualising the Multiple Steams Framework back to its source of origin to enhance its analytical and explanatory leverage

3. Johanna Kuhlmann: Clear enough to be proven wrong? Assessing the influence of the concept of bounded rationality within the multiple streams framework

4. Friedbert W. Rub: Agenda-Setting and Policy-Making in Time: What the Multiple Streams Approach Can Tell us

and what it cannot II. The Elements of the Multiple Streams Framework

5. Michael Howlett, Alan McConnell and Anthony Perl: Kingdon a la Carte: A new recipe for mixing stages, cycles, soups and streams

6. Thomas Birkland; Megan K. Warnement: Refining the idea of focusing events in the multiple streams framework

7. Asa Knaggard: Framing the Problem: Knowledge Brokers in the Multiple Streams Framework

8. Nicole Herweg: Clarifying the concept of policy communities in the multiple streams framework

9. Nikolaos Zahariadis: Political Leadership, Multiple Streams, and the Emotional Endowment Effect: A Comparison of American and Greek Foreign Policies III. The Applicability of the Multiple Streams Framework in Parliamentary and Multi-level Systems

10. Reimut Zohlnhofer and Christian Huss: How well does the Multiple Streams Framework travel? Evidence from German case studies

11. Iris Reus: The Expulsion of the Smokers from Paradise

A Multiple Streams Analysis of the German Non-Smokers Protection Legislation 12) Dan Hansen: Crisis Policymaking: Traceable Processes of Multiple Streams

13. Raquel Gallego, Nicolas Barbieri and Sheila Gonzalez: Reinterpreting the multiple streams framework from a process approach: Decision-making and policy shift in health public management in Catalonia, 2003-2007

14. Florian Spohr: Explaining Path Dependency and Paradigm Shifts by combining the Multiple Streams Framework and Historical Institutionalism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785521256

178552125X

1785522531

9781785522536

OCLC:

949845376