Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints

Reimut Zohlnhoefer is a professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. He received a Master's degree in political science from the University of Heidelberg and a PhD in political science from the University of Bremen. Afterwards he was assistant professor in Heidelberg, and John F Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He became a professor of comparative public policy at Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg, in 2008 before returning to Heidelberg in 2011. He has published in many leading political science journals including Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Public Policy, Social Policy and Administration, and West European Politics. He is also the editor of numerous volumes and special issues, the most recent of which include Developments in German Politics 4 (Palgrave 2014; with Stephen Padgett and William Paterson). Friedbert W Rub is a professor of political sociology and social policies at Humboldt University of Berlin. He received a diploma in political science, sociology and history and a PhD in political science from the University of Hannover. Afterwards he was, among others, Fellow of the Collegium Budapest and assistant professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 2002 he become a professor at the University of Hamburg and moved to Humboldt University of Berlin in 2008. He has published on democratisation processes in Eastern Europe, on social policies (healthcare, pension policies etc) in Germany, on political parties, and on governance problems in the German Republic. He is also co-editor of two special issues of German Policy Studies concerning changes to the Bismarckian welfare state.

Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables vii List of Abbreviations ix Contributors xi Preface xv Chapter One - Introduction: Policy-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints 1 Reimut Zohlnhoefer and Friedbert W. Rub PART ONE - THE THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF THE MULTIPLE-STREAMS FRAMEWORK 19 Chapter Two - Lost in Translation: Re-conceptualising the Multiple-Streams Framework Back to its Source of Inspiration 21 Harald Saetren Chapter Three - Clear Enough To Be Proven Wrong? Assessing the Influence of the Concept of Bounded Rationality within the Multiple-Streams Framework 35 Johanna Kuhlmann Chapter Four - Agenda-Setting and Policy-Making in Time: What the Multiple-Streams Approach Can Tell Us - and What It Cannot 51 Friedbert W. Rub PART TWO - THE ELEMENTS OF THE MULTIPLE-STREAMS FRAMEWORK 71 Chapter Five - Kingdon a la Carte: A New Recipe for Mixing Stages, Cycles, Soups and Streams 73 Michael Howlett, Allan McConnell and Anthony Perl Chapter Six - Refining the Idea of Focusing Events in the Multiple-Streams Framework 91 Thomas A. Birkland and Megan K. Warnement Chapter Seven - Framing the Problem: Knowledge-Brokers in the Multiple-Streams Framework 109 Asa Knaggard Chapter Eight - Clarifying the Concept of Policy-Communities in the Multiple-Streams Framework 125 Nicole Herweg Chapter Nine - Political Leadership, Multiple Streams and the Emotional Endowment Effect: A Comparison of American and Greek Foreign Policies 147 Nikolaos Zahariadis PART THREE - THE APPLICABILITY OF THE MULTIPLE-STREAMS FRAMEWORK IN PARLIAMENTARY AND MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEMS 167 Chapter Ten - How Well Does the Multiple-Streams Framework Travel? Evidence from German Case Studies 169 Reimut Zohlnhoefer and Christian Huss Chapter Eleven - The Expulsion of the Smokers from Paradise: A Multiple-Streams Analysis of German Non-Smoker-Protection Legislation 189 Iris Reus Chapter Twelve - Crisis Policy-Making: Traceable Processes of Multiple Streams 213 Dan Hansen Chapter Thirteen - Reinterpreting the Multiple-Streams Framework from a Process Approach: Decision-Making and Policy-Shift in Public Health Management in Catalonia, 2003-7 231 Raquel Gallego, Nicolas Barbieri and Sheila Gonzalez Chapter Fourteen - Path-Departing Labour-Market Reforms in the United Kingdom and Sweden: An Analysis Combining the Multiple-Streams Framework and Historical Institutionalism 251 Florian Spohr Index 271