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 Zohlnhöfer and Friedbert W. Rüb
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 Sætren
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. Rüb
PART TWO – THE ELEMENTS OF THE MULTIPLE-STREAMS
FRAMEWORK 71
Chapter Five – Kingdon à 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
Åsa Knaggård
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 Zohlnhöfer 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 Hansén
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, Nicolás Barbieri and Sheila González
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

About the Author

Reimut Zohlnhöfer 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 Rüb 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.