Unpacking Complexity in Policy and Politics: Insights from ECPR Panel Discussions

There is no denying that we live in complex times, featuring a global pandemic, climate change, and structural inequality. Complex problems are often incredibly difficult to address. Policy makers, practitioners and scholars have known this for a long time. In 1973, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber introduced the term ‘wicked problems’ to describe problems that Unpacking Complexity in Policy and Politics: Insights from ECPR Panel Discussions