Administrative Styles and Policy Styles
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
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In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Administrative Styles and Policy Styles" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 27, Heft 7, S. 1015-1033
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Cambridge studies in comparative public policy
The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, responsiveness inevitably entails policy accumulation. While policy accumulation often positively reflects modernisation and human progress, it also undermines democratic government in three main ways. First, policy accumulation renders policy content increasingly complex, which crowds out policy substance from public debates and leads to an increasingly unhealthy discursive prioritisation of politics over policy. Secondly, policy accumulation comes with aggravating implementation deficits, as it produces administrative backlogs and incentivises selective implementation. Finally, policy accumulation undermines the pursuit of evidence-based public policy, because it threatens our ability to evaluate the increasingly complex interactions within growing policy mixes. The authors argue that the stability of democratic systems will crucially depend on their ability to make policy accumulation more sustainable.
World Affairs Online
In: The review of international organizations, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 83-106
ISSN: 1559-7431
World Affairs Online
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Band 50, Heft 3, S. 527-552
ISSN: 1541-0072
In this article, we analyze dynamics of policy change from the perspective of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET). In particular, we investigate how economic crises impact on patterns of policy change in policy areas that vary in terms of their proximity to economic matters: social, environmental, and morality policy. We make two contributions. First, we show that economic crises lead to more incrementalist patterns of policy change in crisis‐remote policy subsystems and make policy punctuations in these areas less likely. However, if such punctuations do occur, they tend to be particularly extreme. Second, we argue that the empirical implications of PET are best tested by separately analyzing variance as an indicator for incrementalism and degrees of freedom as an indicator for punctuations. The empirical analysis builds on two data sets capturing policy output changes in 13 European countries over a period of 34 years (1980–2013).
In: Journal of comparative policy analysis: research and practice, Band 21, Heft 5, S. 499-517
ISSN: 1572-5448