Tag Archives: Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy

Using ‘complexity thinking’ to manage an increasingly complex world – by Paul Cairney, Robert Geyer and Nicola Mathie

June 16, 2015

1 Comment

Abstract twisted light fibers background

Image credit: istockphoto

Complex policy-making systems are ‘greater than the sum of their parts’.  To understand them we must examine not only the individuals involved but also the ways in which they interact with each other, to share information and combine to produce ‘systemic behaviour’.  Professor Paul Cairney, Professor Robert Geyer and Nicola Mathie consider what is involved in using ‘complexity thinking’ to inform policy decisions.

[…]

Continue reading...
%d bloggers like this: