Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World
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Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach, combining complexity science and institutionalism.
Part 1 is concerned with the conceptualization of socio-economic change. It integrates complexity science and institutionalism into a coherent ontology of social and policy dynamics.
Part 2 is concerned with models and measurement. It combines some of the principal approaches developed in complexity analysis with models and methods drawn from mainstream social and political science.
Part 3 offers empirical applications to public policy: the dynamics of social exclusion; the social dimension of knowledge economies; the current financial and economic crisis. These are supplemented by a toolkit for the practice of 'agile policy making'.
This is a stimulating, provocative and highly original book. It will appeal to academics and students in social and policy studies and to a wide range of scholars in other disciplines where complexity science is already well-developed. It will also be of major interest for decision makers coping with complex and turbulent policy terrains.
Contents: Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I: Concepts; 2. The Complexity Paradigm; 3. Complex Adaptive Systems; 4. The Economy as a Complex Adaptive System; 5. Institutional Settings and Architectures; 6. Institutional Dynamics; 7. The Struggle for Positional Advantage; 8. Conceptualising Social Dynamics; Part II: Methods; 9. Attractors and Orbits in Dynamic Systems; 10. Patterns in Time and Space; 11. Connections and Networks; 12. Mobility on Social Landscapes; 13. Towards a Generic Methodology; Part III: Policies; 14. Agile Policy-Making; 15. Poverty and Social Exclusion; 16. Social Dynamics of the Knowledge Economy; 17. Global Turbulence and Crisis; Postscript: Tools for Policy-Makers; References; Index
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