This chapter presents several descriptive approaches to policy networks in some more
detail. It also presents networks conceived as dependent variables. The chapter analyzes …

An important contribution to the policy sciences, and to interorganizational research in
particular, has been the introduction of the so‐called policy network approach. Despite the …

Most of the current work on network analysis tends to concentrate on the relationship
between actors and the context within which various actors engage in the formulation of …

Political governance in modern societies can no longer be conceived in terms of external
government control of society but emerges from a plurality of governing agents. In …

The concept of policy networks has gained a large number of adherents and occupied a
great deal of space in the academic journals over the past decade. This pattern of thinking …

In this article we address the elaboration of the central concepts of a theory of networks and
of network management. We suggest that the network approach builds on several …

The paper offers a refined and systematic concept of state‐business relations based on the
'policy network'idea. The major dimensions of policy networks are presented as (1) number …

From modest origins as specific types of state-interest group relations, policy network
approaches have developed in a series of phases, with the appearance of network …

A'Babylonian'variety of policy network concepts and applications can be found in the
literature. Neither is there a common understanding of what a policy networks actually is, nor …

Discussions of policy networks are becoming increasingly common in the analysis of public
policy in Britain, the US and Europe. However, whilst there is general agreement that policy …