Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework

Edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis, Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, US, Nicole Herweg, Research Fellow, Reimut Zohlnhöfer, Professor of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany and Evangelia Petridou, Associate Professor of Political Science, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, and Senior Researcher, NTNU Social Research, Norway

• Contents:1 Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework 1Nikolaos Zahariadis, Nicole Herweg, Reimut Zohlnhöfer,Evangelia Petridou, and Vilém NovotnýPART I THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS2 How far does a policy change go? Explaining the scope ofreforms with the Multiple Streams Framework 25Reimut Zohlnhöfer3 Policy Termination meets Multiple Streams 43Georg Wenzelburger & Stefanie Thurm4 Multilevel Influence and Interaction in the MultipleStreams Framework: A Conceptual Map 62Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson5 The Beating Heart of the Multiple Streams Framework:Coupling as a Process 82Dana A. Dolan and Sonja Blum6 From Policy Entrepreneur to Policy Entrepreneurship:Examining the Role of Context on Policy Entrepreneurial Action 104Evangelia PetridouPART II APPLICATIONS: NATIONAL LEVEL7 Shifting Ideational Paradigms in Public Health:Connecting Design and Implementation in Greek Health Policy 121Vassilis Karokis-Mavrikos and Maria Mavriko8 Multiple Streams, Policy Implementation and the GreekRefugee Crisis 144Nikolaos Zahariadis and Evangelia Petridou9 More guns, less violence? Putting the MultipleStreams Framework to the test against Bolsonaro’s gunliberalization agenda 160Diego Sanjurjo10 Turkey’s Pandemic Management: Insights from theMultiple Streams Framework Perspective 180Lacin Idil Oztig11 The Multiple Streams Framework in an Autocracy:China’s Long-Awaited Soil Pollution Law 200Annemieke van den DoolPART III SUBNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS12 Subnational Focusing Events and Agenda Change: TheCase of Toxic Algae Bloom and Contaminated DrinkingWater in Toledo, Ohio 222Kristin Taylor, Rob A. DeLeo, Stephanie Zarb, NathanJeschke, and Thomas A. Birkland13 Policy Development in Swedish Crisis Management:Restructuring of Fire and Rescue Services 246Kerstin Eriksson, Gertrud Alirani, Roine Johansson and Lotta Vylund14 Subnational Policy Windows: Shanghai’s Grid Screening Policy 265Stephen Ceccoli and Xinran Andy Chen15 The Multiple Streams Framework and MultilevelReinforcing Dynamics: The Case of European andInternational Climate Policy 285Katharina Rietig16 The challenge of applying the Multiple StreamsFramework to non-decisions and negative decisions 305Annette Elisabeth Töller17 Multiple Streams in the public policymaking processes ofthe European Union 326Theofanis ExadaktylosIndex

‘Top scholars Zahariadis, Herweg, Zohlnhöfer, and Petridou offer a nuanced and sophisticated presentation of the Multiple Streams Framework. They are supported by applications of MSF emphasizing rich theoretical development and comparisons. This edited volume provides an essential reading to anyone interested in policy choice and the policy process.’