1st Edition
Complexity Theory in Public Administration
Introduction – Complexity theory and public management: a ‘becoming’ field
Elizabeth Anne Eppel and Mary Lee Rhodes
1. Association between decisions: experiments with coupled two-person games
Peter Koenraad Marks and Lasse M. Gerrits
2. Understanding the influence of values in complex systems-based approaches to public policy and management
Philip Haynes
3. ‘What insights do fitness landscape models provide for theory and practice in public administration?’
Mary Lee Rhodes and Conor Dowling
4. Engaging with complexity in a public programme implementation
Walter Castelnovo and Maddalena Sorrentino
5. Bridging complexity theory and hierarchies, markets, networks, communities: a ‘population genetics’ framework for understanding institutional change from within
Tim Tenbensel
6. Utilizing complexity theory to explore sustainable responses to intimate partner violence in health care
Claire Gear, Elizabeth Eppel and Jane Koziol-Mclain
7. Sustainability of collaborative networks in higher education research projects: why complexity? Why now?
Amanda Scott, Geoff Woolcott, Robyn Keast and Daniel Chamberlain
8. Cultivating resiliency through system shock: the Southern California metropolitan water management system as a complex adaptive system
Jack W. Meek and Kevin S. Marshall
Biography
Elizabeth Anne Eppel is a Senior Research and Teaching Fellow in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are complexity in public policy processes, governance networks, and collaborative governance.
Mary Lee Rhodes is Associate Professor of Public Management at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research is focused on complex public service systems and the dynamics of performance. Her current research is on the nature and dynamics of social innovation and impact, and she is developing research on social finance, and resilience of urban systems.
