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100			_aJohn, Peter
245			_aIs there life after policy streams, advocacy coalitions, and punctuations: using evolutionary theory to explain policy change?
260			_c2003
300			_ap.481-98.
362			_aNov
520			_aThis article reviews the current state of public policy theory to find out if researchers are ready to readdress the research agenda set by the classic works of Baumgartner and Jones (1993), Kingdon (1984) and Sabatier and Jenkings-Smith (1993). After reviewing the influences of institutional, rational choices, network, socio-economic and ideational approaches, the article pays tribute to the policy streams, punctuated equilibrium and policy advocacy coalition frameworks whilst also suggesting that future theory and research could identify more precisely the causal mechanisms driving policy change. The article argues that evolutionary theory may usefully uncover the micro-level processes at work, particularly as some the three frameworks refer to dynamic models and methods. After reviewing some evolutionary game theory and the study of memes, the article suggests that the benefits of evolutionary theory in extending policy theories need to be balanced by its limitations. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic policy
773			_aPolicy Studies Journal
909			_a60823
999			_c60823 _d60823