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Agile Actors on Complex Terrains: Transformative Realism and Public Policy book cover

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Agile Actors on Complex Terrains Transformative Realism and Public Policy

By Graham Room Copyright 2016
218 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book assesses the value and relevance of the literature on complex systems to policy-making, contributing to both social theory and policy analysis. For this purpose it develops two key ideas: agile action and transformative realism. The book takes some major themes from complexity science, presents them in a clear and accessible manner and applies them to core problems in sociological... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Transformative Realism

1. Complexity and the Social Sciences

2. Evolution and the Arts of Civilisation

3. Contingent Development and Explanation (with Graham K Brown)

Part II: Agile Actors

4. Rationality, Rationales and Agile Action

5. Positional Advantage: A Three-Dimensional Analysis

6. Navigating Complex Environments

Part III: Public Policy

7. Evidence for Agile Policy-Makers

8. Nudge or Nuzzle? – Improving Decisions about Active Citizenship

9. Unequal Rewards and the Super-Rich

10. Conclusion

Biography

Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is author, co-author or editor of twelve books, including Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World, Edward Elgar, 2011. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for Policy Research.

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