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The Multiple Streams Framework: Understanding Interactions Among Actors, Institutions, and Ideas in Policy Change

Policy Analysis
Public Policy
Policy Change
Policy Implementation
Policy-Making
P521
Evangelia Petridou
Mid-Sweden University
Reimut Zohlnhöfer
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Nikolaos Zahariadis
Rhodes College

Abstract

How do policy actors transform ambiguous political circumstances into concrete policy outcomes? This panel examines the multiple streams framework (MSF) as a lens for understanding the complex interactions among policy actors, institutional structures, and competing ideas throughout the policy process. Despite the extant scholarship that has covered considerable on MSF, there exist significant opportunities to study their dynamic interplay of actors, structures, and ideas and how this interplay shapes agenda-setting, decision-making, and policy implementation across diverse contexts.

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