ABSTRACT
Public policy processes are complex. Nobody would dispute this. Then why do we need a complexity theory for public policy? What would it add to our intuitive understanding that it is a complex world out there? In this book I make the case, hopefully a convincing one, that complexity is not just a negative designation (that “the world is too complex to comprehend”) but a positive one. Complexity theory is a broad framework of positively describing the complexity of the world.
