-hierarchical policy coordination which Charles Lindblom (1965) had subsumed under the label of "Partisan Mutual Adjustment". It is argued … that these claims are implausible if Lindblom’s mechanisms of horizontal self-coordination are examined one at a time. They … through self-coordination will encounter rapidly escalating transaction costs. As Lindblom had pointed out, however, several …

was among the first social scientists to use evolutionary game theory. His approach remains distinctive in emphasizing …