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Agile Actors on Complex Terrains - Transformative realism and public policy (Paperback)
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Agile Actors on Complex Terrains - Transformative realism and public policy (Paperback)
Series: Complexity in Social Science
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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
theory and policy analysis. Combining complexity science with
perspectives from institutionalism and political economy, this book
is the first to integrate these fields conceptually,
methodologically and in terms of the implications for policy
analysis and practice. Room shows how the models and methods of
social and complexity science can be jointly deployed and applied
to empirical areas of public policy. He demonstrates how complexity
science can provide insight into the nonlinear dynamics of the
social world, but why these need to be understood by reference to
the unequal distribution of power and advantage. Among the
sociological debates with which the book engages are those
concerned with causation and explanation, rational action and
positional competition, and the place of evolutionary concepts in
accounts of social change. Among the policy debates are those
concerned with evidence and policy, the dynamics of inequality, and
libertarian paternalism. The book will appeal to final year
undergraduates and postgraduate students in social sciences;
scholars in social and policy studies broadly defined;
policy-makers who want to go beyond conventional discussions of
evidence-based policy-making and cross-national lesson-drawing, and
consider how to approach complex and turbulent policy terrains; and
a wider range of scholars in other disciplines where complexity
science is already well developed.
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