ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we analyze whether and how descriptions of policy in each of the predominate US policy theories are analogous with a complexity or a Newtonian science paradigm at the level of government decision-making. We will also analyze current US public policy theories utilize complex systems testing and predictions that are analogous to the linear positivist or complex postpositivist or critical realist scientific methodological approaches. The goal is to evaluate if in fact, such theories match the reality of complex policymaking in the real world, in theoretical approach and methodology.
