Policy analysis has usually been organized around the concept of the policy sector, which
has served as the fundamental unit for analyzing policy change. The emergence of well-
defined and institutionalized issue subsectors, however, has called the utility of a purely
sectoral analysis of policy dynamics into question. Utilizing evidence from a case study of
forest policy development in British Columbia, Canada, in the 1990s, this article suggests
that understanding policy change in complex sectors such as forestry requires a more …