Complexity and policy analysis
Subtitle: tools and concepts for designing robust policies in a complex world
By: edited by Linda F. Dennard, Kurt A. Richardson & Göktuğ Morçöl.
Contributors: Dennard, Linda F.; Richardson, Kurt A.; Morçöl, Göktuğ.
Series: Exploring organizational complexity -- 2
Publisher: ISCE Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Goodyear, AZ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780981703220
Subjects: Policy sciences; Policy sciences -- Mathematical models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A complexity theory for policy analysis : an outline and proposals; title: On the limits of bottom-up computer simulation : towards a nonlinear modeling culture; title: The role of 'waste' in complex systems; title: Legitimacy, accountability and policy analysis : the evolution of the administrative state; title: An existential complexity appreciation of policy development and analysis; title: Facilitating resource decision making in public organizations drawing upon insights from complexity theory; title: Robust policy analysis for complex open systems; title: Playing with CARS : a pluralist approach to supporting executive decision-making; title: Voting complexity and electoral outcomes : an agent-based model of Condorcet social choice problems; title: Economic policy hints from heterogeneous agent-based simulation; title: Policy analysis for sustainable development : complexities and methodological responses; title: Chaotic systems and new perspectives for economics methodology : a review from literature; title: Agent-based modeling of lottery markets : policy-making from the bottom up; title: Integrating policy analysis and complexity : developing the new specialization of integration and implementation sciences; title: Network rules in international technology transfers within multinational enterprises : limitations on the power of strange attractors; title: An inquiry on the collective memory of industrial networks : a simulation tool for policy makers; title: Illuminating risk with Q methodology : the complexity of trans-disciplinary information system integration; title: Quantitative models from qualitative data : case studies in agent-based socio-political modeling; title: The potential of complexity theory in understanding urban regeneration processes; title: Agent-based modelling for public service policy development : a new framework for policy development; title: Partnerships and metropolitan governance : an adaptive systems perspective.