Why public policies fail: Policymaking under complexity

The failure of public policies is ubiquitous. This paper ascribes this failure to the complex system nature of public policies. A key characteristic of complex systems is that they cannot be closely controlled or predicted. Yet the traditional approach to public policy is fundamentally based on both...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernardo Mueller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758019300931