Policy networks and resource dependency -- Actors and resources -- Policy network theory as a theory of policy change -- policy network theory and the future of public policy -- Testing policy network theory -- Policy implications of technological trends -- Growing affluence, the shift to services, and the growth of women's employment -- Energy, mobility and climate change -- Trade expansion and the internationalization of production and finance -- Sex and secularization -- Population ageing and the expansion of education -- The future of public policy

1. Social history
2. Policy sciences
3. Policy networks