Rethinking wicked problems as political problems and policy problems
本文指出，棘手问题不仅带来政策挑战，还影响精英的政治声誉、议程控制和意识形态推广，并分析了应对这些多重风险的不同方式。
Study of the ‘politics’ of wicked problems has tended to be ad hoc, scattered across multiple disciplines. This article seeks to address this gap in our understanding. As well as the traditional policy challenges of wicked issues, elites also have to consider the impact on political reputations, control of agendas and the promotion of particular ideological/governance trajectories. In this context, and focusing on wicked issues as presenting both political and policy problems for policy elites, this article examines different responses to these multiple risks, as well as different approaches to thinking about societal capacities to address seemingly intractable ‘wicked’ issues.