Generalized Political Exchange

How is societal self-regulation and governance through complex policy networks possible at all? What explains success or failure of joint macroeconomic management in areas such as employment, industrial and technological development, and monetary and fiscal policy? What makes associational interest intermediation in labour relations, or environmental protection through chemicals control policy viable or ineffective? This book develops a base for the use of network thinking in policy field analysis by presenting competing as well as converging theoretical perspectives.