DOI
DOI: 10.7249/WR1326

Summary
The publication presents a list of suggestions on how to improve the teaching and conduct of policy studies and research, by integrating the analysis of complex adaptive systems (CAS). In this regard, the paper focuses mainly on 4 aspects needed to address CAS:
1- A worldview (i.e. system) perspective on issues
2- The basis for reasoning within a system perspective (i.e. complex reasoning, complex system thinking)
3- The analytic style for conducting policy inquiry
4- The kind of models used to carry out the research
For each category, the paper addresses several methodological and theoretical issues, providing general guidelines for researchers, policy analysists and future policymakers. In general, what the paper ask from them is a more “flexible” and “wide” perspective.

Relevance for Complex Systems Knowledge
The paper presents a list of new practices to teach and carry out policy analysis;
The practices presented in the paper have a strong interdisciplinary focus, relying on social sciences (sociology, anthropology, etc.), computer science (computational social sciences) and statistics.

Point of Strength
It has a strong practical perspective, although limited and somewhat general;
A table presented at the end of the paper provides a perfect sum of its content and a useful guide for designing new curricula.