Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints: Assessing the Multiple-Streams Framework [Paperback]

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.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 Frameworks potential in different national contexts and in policy areas from climate change and foreign policy to healthcare and the welfare state.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiList of Abbreviations ixContributors xiPreface xvChapter One  Introduction: Policy-Making under Ambiguity and TimeConstraints 1Reimut Zohlnh?fer and Friedbert W. R?bPART ONE  THE THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF THEMULTIPLE-STREAMS FRAMEWORK 19Chapter Two  Lost in Translation: Re-conceptualising theMultiple-Streams Framework Back to its Source of Inspiration 21Harald S?trenChapter Three  Clear Enough To Be Proven Wrong? Assessing theInfluence of the Concept of Bounded Rationality within theMultiple-Streams Framework 35Johanna KuhlmannChapter Four  Agenda-Setting and Policy-Making in Time:What the Multiple-Streams Approach Can Tell Us  andWhat It Cannot 51Friedbert W. R?bPART TWO  THE ELEMENTS OF THE MULTIPLE-STREAMSFRAMEWORK 71Chapter Five  Kingdon ? la Carte: A New Recipe for Mixing Stages,Cycles, Soups and Streams 73Michael Howlett, Allan McConnell and Anthony PerlChapterlÓ$