FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Political Science

New Book: The Structure of Policy Evolution

A new book from Political Science alumnus, Oldrich Bubak, moves forward policy studies with its unified model of evolutionary change.

 

Recent book from Political Science alumnus, Oldrich Bubak, The Structure of Policy Evolution: Painting an Integrated Picture of Change in Policy and Institutional Systems, “breaks new ground” in the theory and practice of public policy. It’s also a jubilee addition to Routledge’s Studies in Governance and Public Policy.

 

The Structure of Policy Evolution advances novel tools for the study, analysis, and development of public policy, essential in a world of growing diversity, complexity, and accelerating change. Inspired by research in technology innovation, the volume brings its forward applications into the studies of policy and institutional systems, answering, among others, the disciplinary need for a common model of change. Relating together the dynamics and the structure of policy evolution, the unified approach offers scholars important new insights into the logics and direction of policy development while advancing policy practitioners’ capacity for forecasting and optimizing designs.

 

The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of policy and institutional development, policy analysis, and public administration and management, as well as comparative policy, evolutionary and complexity policy, and social policy and welfare state modernization research.

 

More information can be found at the book’s website.