Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is author, co-author or editor of twelve books, including Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World, Edward Elgar, 2011. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for Policy Research.

• PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Transformative Realism1. Complexity and the Social Sciences 2. Evolution and the Arts of Civilisation 3. Contingent Development and Explanation (with Graham K Brown) Part II: Agile Actors 4. Rationality, Rationales and Agile Action 5. Positional Advantage: A Three-Dimensional Analysis 6. Navigating Complex Environments Part III: Public Policy7. Evidence for Agile Policy-Makers 8. Nudge or Nuzzle? – Improving Decisions about Active Citizenship 9. Unequal Rewards and the Super-Rich 10. Conclusion

Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is author, co-author or editor of twelve books, including Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World, Edward Elgar, 2011. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for Policy Research.

• PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Transformative Realism1. Complexity and the Social Sciences 2. Evolution and the Arts of Civilisation 3. Contingent Development and Explanation (with Graham K Brown) Part II: Agile Actors 4. Rationality, Rationales and Agile Action 5. Positional Advantage: A Three-Dimensional Analysis 6. Navigating Complex Environments Part III: Public Policy7. Evidence for Agile Policy-Makers 8. Nudge or Nuzzle? – Improving Decisions about Active Citizenship 9. Unequal Rewards and the Super-Rich 10. Conclusion

Graham Room is Professor of European Social Policy at the University of Bath. He is author, co-author or editor of twelve books, including Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy: Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World, Edward Elgar, 2011. He was Founding Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for Policy Research.

• PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Transformative Realism1. Complexity and the Social Sciences 2. Evolution and the Arts of Civilisation 3. Contingent Development and Explanation (with Graham K Brown) Part II: Agile Actors 4. Rationality, Rationales and Agile Action 5. Positional Advantage: A Three-Dimensional Analysis 6. Navigating Complex Environments Part III: Public Policy7. Evidence for Agile Policy-Makers 8. Nudge or Nuzzle? – Improving Decisions about Active Citizenship 9. Unequal Rewards and the Super-Rich 10. Conclusion