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14249 results in Political economy

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  • 5 - The Threat to Effective and Even Policy Implementation

  • Christian Adam, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Steffen Hurka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Christoph Knill, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Yves Steinebach, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
  • Book:
    Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap
    Published online:
    25 March 2019
    Print publication:
    11 April 2019, pp 93-124

  • Summary

    In this chapter, we argue that policy accumulation impinges on the process of policy implementation in distinct ways. First, the addition of new policy elements into existing policy portfolios can lead to a higher number of implementation tasks (expansion). Second, policy makers may close the gaps within established policy portfolios to become more encompassing by addressing a larger target group (densification). Finally, policy accumulation may require additional rules that specify how the numerous elements of a policy portfolio relate to each other. To deal with the resulting increase in implementation burdens under substantial resource constraints, implementers must develop adequate coping strategies, which result in implementation backlogs and delays as well as in patterns of selective implementation. Consequently, policy accumulation enhances the risk of increasing implementation deficits. Regardless of variations across countries, this threat is substantial and we will remain blind to this threat without adopting a new epidemiological perspective in implementation research.

  • 1 - Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap

  • Christian Adam, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Steffen Hurka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Christoph Knill, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen, Yves Steinebach, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
  • Book:
    Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap
    Published online:
    25 March 2019
    Print publication:
    11 April 2019, pp 1-8

  • Summary

    In this introductory chapter, we outline the book's general argument on policy accumulation and the democratic responsiveness trap. We argue that in democracies, legitimacy emerges through the political system's responsiveness to societal demands. However, democratic responsiveness also entails policy accumulation, i.e. the continuous addition of new policy elements to existing policy mixes. While policy accumulation reflects modernization and human progress, it also undermines democratic legitimacy by lowering the quality of policy debates, impairing implementation efforts and complicating policy evaluation. Therefore, policy makers are stuck in a responsiveness trap: being unresponsive will undermine their legitimacy, while being responsive—and thereby accumulating policies and regulations—will slowly and silently overburden the administrative, evaluative, and communicative capacities that help support the legitimacy of democratic government in the long run. While we share the notion of recent contributions that populism presents a real threat to the sustainability of democratic government, we add that policy accumulation provides fertile ground for populist movements.

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