A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework

Elgar Modern Guides

Edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis, Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, US, Nicole Herweg, Research Fellow, Reimut Zohlnhöfer, Professor of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany and Evangelia Petridou, Associate Professor of Political Science, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, and Senior Researcher, NTNU Social Research, Norway

Applying the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to a global range of case studies, this pioneering Modern Guide addresses how policymakers decide what issues to attend to and which choices to make or implement. In doing so it outlines that, far from being the exception, ambiguity and timing are integral parts of every comparative explanation of the policy process.

‘Top scholars Zahariadis, Herweg, Zohlnhöfer, and Petridou offer a nuanced and sophisticated presentation of the Multiple Streams Framework. They are supported by applications of MSF emphasizing rich theoretical development and comparisons. This edited volume provides an essential reading to anyone interested in policy choice and the policy process.’
– Christopher M. Weible, University of Colorado Denver, US

‘A comprehensive account of a major and very successful approach to policy change, written by the leaders in the field. Highly informative on the theoretical and empirical developments of the Multiple Streams Framework, this book takes the reader on an exploration of policy change over time and across different sub-national, national, and international domains.’
– Claudio Radaelli, European University Institute, Italy and University College London, UK

‘The Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) became one of the most used theories of the policy process, but most tend to use MSF loosely without contributing to theoretical coherence and advance. Therefore, this book does policy scholars a great service by showing how to foster and use the MSF state of the art.’
——保罗•Cairney英国斯特灵大学