Theoretical and Scientific Basis of Policy Science

The fundamental purpose of this second volume of the Treatise on Policy Science is to build the theoretical, epistemological, and methodological foundations that support the formation of this field as an autonomous, operational, and transdisciplinary social science. Through a review that encompasses intellectual genealogies, analytical models, applied methods, and epistemological debates, the volume offers a solid conceptual architecture for conceiving, analyzing, and transforming public policies as complex processes of collective decision-making.