Title: Decision-making under ambiguity and time constraints : assessing the multiple-streams framework /
Authors: Zohlnhöfer, Reimut,; Rüb, Friedbert W., 1953-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Political science Decision making; Policy sciences.; Political planning.; Policy sciences; Political science Decision making
Abstract: 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 --^