<title>Abstract</title> This article investigates the relationship between the connective style of network management and outcomes of governance processes and explains differences and developments in managerial styles in complex governance networks in relation to outcomes. We found that a strong connective...

<title>Abstract</title> Innovations in public policy are difficult to realize if decision-making arrangements are not scrutinized at the same time. Rigid institutional arrangements often hinder the realization of policy breakthroughs. Consequently, in the day-to-day practice of public administration, more and...

<title>Abstract</title> Policy processes are anything but static. In this paper an evolutionary framework derived from complexity theory is explored to explain how policy processes evolve in a non-linear way and how they result in a chain of subsequent policy decisions. Policy change is explained by tracing...