This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory concepts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Public Management Review.

Introduction - Complexity theory and public management: a 'becoming' field 1. Association between decisions: experiments with coupled two-person games 2. Understanding the influence of values in complex systems-based approaches to public policy and management 3. 'What insights do fitness landscape models provide for theory and practice in public administration?' 4. Engaging with complexity in a public programme implementation 5. Bridging complexity theory and hierarchies, markets, networks, communities: a 'population genetics' framework for understanding institutional change from within 6. Utilizing complexity theory to explore sustainable responses to intimate partner violence in health care 7. Sustainability of collaborative networks in higher education research projects: why complexity? Why now? 8. Cultivating resiliency through system shock: the Southern California metropolitan water management system as a complex adaptive system