ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on pushing that fringe a little further and shows the possibilities that complexity offers. Adam Wellstead explores the implications for complexity on policy-making and policy process theory. Introducing new theoretical modifications to the policy frameworks that will lead to a considerable 'messiness' was also created in terms of the possible unpacking of observed empirical aspects within a complexity-based policy process framework. Problem and solution are dynamic concepts in complex systems, and the public at large have a significant and continuing role to play throughout the process. The organisational response by policy actors requires a rigorous consideration of intra-organisational dynamics. The 'social contract' and the hierarchical structure that it spawned are based on a premise that is in question following discoveries about complex systems and the parallels they reveal with the way political economic processes unfold.
