A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework

Edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis, Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, US, Nicole Herweg, Research Fellow, Reimut Zohlnhöfer, Professor of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany and Evangelia Petridou, Associate Professor of Political Science, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, and Senior Researcher, NTNU Social Research, Norway

Contents:

1 Advancing the Multiple Streams Framework 1
Nikolaos Zahariadis, Nicole Herweg, Reimut Zohlnhöfer,
Evangelia Petridou, and Vilém Novotný

PART I THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
2 How far does a policy change go? Explaining the scope of
reforms with the Multiple Streams Framework 25
Reimut Zohlnhöfer
3 Policy Termination meets Multiple Streams 43
Georg Wenzelburger & Stefanie Thurm
4 Multilevel Influence and Interaction in the Multiple
Streams Framework: A Conceptual Map 62
Åsa Knaggård and Roger Hildingsson
5 The Beating Heart of the Multiple Streams Framework:
Coupling as a Process 82
Dana A. Dolan and Sonja Blum
6 From Policy Entrepreneur to Policy Entrepreneurship:
Examining the Role of Context on Policy Entrepreneurial Action 104
Evangelia Petridou

PART II APPLICATIONS: NATIONAL LEVEL
7 Shifting Ideational Paradigms in Public Health:
Connecting Design and Implementation in Greek Health Policy 121
Vassilis Karokis-Mavrikos and Maria Mavriko
8 Multiple Streams, Policy Implementation and the Greek
Refugee Crisis 144
Nikolaos Zahariadis and Evangelia Petridou
9 More guns, less violence? Putting the Multiple
Streams Framework to the test against Bolsonaro’s gun
liberalization agenda 160
Diego Sanjurjo
10 Turkey’s Pandemic Management: Insights from the
Multiple Streams Framework Perspective 180
Lacin Idil Oztig
11 The Multiple Streams Framework in an Autocracy:
China’s Long-Awaited Soil Pollution Law 200
Annemieke van den Dool

PART III SUBNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS
12 Subnational Focusing Events and Agenda Change: The
Case of Toxic Algae Bloom and Contaminated Drinking
Water in Toledo, Ohio 222
Kristin Taylor, Rob A. DeLeo, Stephanie Zarb, Nathan
Jeschke, and Thomas A. Birkland
13 Policy Development in Swedish Crisis Management:
Restructuring of Fire and Rescue Services 246
Kerstin Eriksson, Gertrud Alirani, Roine Johansson and Lotta Vylund
14 Subnational Policy Windows: Shanghai’s Grid Screening Policy 265
Stephen Ceccoli and Xinran Andy Chen
15 The Multiple Streams Framework and Multilevel
Reinforcing Dynamics: The Case of European and
International Climate Policy 285
Katharina Rietig
16 The challenge of applying the Multiple Streams
Framework to non-decisions and negative decisions 305
Annette Elisabeth Töller
17 Multiple Streams in the public policymaking processes of
the European Union 326
Theofanis Exadaktylos

Index