Policy Portfolios

Testing Theories of Policy Growth: Public Demands, Interest Group Politics, Electoral Competition, and Institutional Fragmentation
Policy growth is a ubiquitous feature of modern democracies that has attracted increased attention in political science and beyond. …
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Testing Theories of Policy Growth: Public Demands, Interest Group Politics, Electoral Competition, and Institutional Fragmentation
Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries
This article analyses the role of political parties in policy accumulation. We study this relationship in the area of social policy. …
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Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries
Bureaucratic Quality and the Gap between Implementation Burden and Administrative Capacities
Democratic governments produce more policies than they can effectively implement. Yet, this gap between the number of policies …
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Bureaucratic Quality and the Gap between Implementation Burden and Administrative Capacities
Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies
Constant policy growth can overburden bureaucracies if implementation capacities are not expanded in lockstep with policy production. …
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Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies
Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance
Democratic governments have constantly added new policies to existing policy stocks to confront societal, economic, and environmental …
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Policy growth, implementation capacities, and the effect on policy performance
Convergence and Diffusion of Environmental Policies
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Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective
This article is a first attempt to systematically examine policy design and its impact on policy effectiveness in a comparative …
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Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective
Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth
This paper asks whether strong bureaucracies can effectively constrain the continuously growing stock of rules in modern democracies …
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Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth