Getting to grips with the problem -- Just do it -- Persuasion -- Political exchange -- Changing the terms of political exchange -- The way ahead.

This article reports the results of research that uses policy network theory and advocacy coalition theory to deduce the implications for the future of public policy in EU Member States of king trends: all those technological, economic, environmental, and social trends that can be empirically verified, affect the lives of large numbers of people and are expected by relevant experts to continue for at least the next 20 years. The resulting policy implications can be summarized as more assertive security policies, (...) more business-friendly economic policies, more liberal social policies, and increased public spending. (shrink)