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This essay summarizes and comments on some of the recent contributions to theories of complex governance and the varieties of democracy made by Volker Schneider. Building on his empirical research agenda using the policy network approach, Schneider has greatly expanded our theoretical concepts for understanding political systems. He has taught us to appreciate the complexity of macro-level political governance systems and the wide variation in the meso-level inter-organizational networks that contribute to those systems (Schneider 2015).
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Broadbent, J. (2020). Systems, Configurations and Fields: Contexts for Policy Networks. In: Nagel, M., Kenis, P., Leifeld, P., Schmedes, HJ. (eds) Politische Komplexität, Governance von Innovationen und Policy-Netzwerke. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30914-5_2
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