The Dynamics of Public Policy: Theory and Evidence

In The Dynamics of Public Policy, Adrian Kay sets out the crucial methodological, theoretical and empirical implications of two important trends in the social sciences: a frequently expressed ambition for analysis of 'movies not stills' and the regular observation that policy, politics and governance is becoming more complex.

Beginning with a discussion of the centrality of temporality, change and history to the social sciences, he develops the provocative claim that existing models of the p...