Coping practices and the spatial dimension of authority design

Kaplaner, Constantin; Steinebach, Yves

doi:10.1111/puar.13654

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“…The full results are presented in the Appendix S1. Steinebach, 2024). We can expect that with growing policy portfolios, the positive effects of policies decrease while the negative effects increase.…”

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“…As bureaucracies have to implement additional policies, they need to redeploy existing resources for the implementation of those new policies – a development that ultimately leaves fewer resources for the implementation of existing ones (Fernández‐i‐Marín et al, 2023a; Limberg et al, 2021). For instance, agencies tasked with monitoring new pollutants in remote regions might be forced to reduce their monitoring activities in other areas (Kaplaner & Steinebach, 2024). We can expect that with growing policy portfolios, the positive effects of policies decrease while the negative effects increase.…”

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Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies

Fernández‐i‐Marín,

Hinterleitner,

Knill

et al. 2023

Public Administration Review

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Constant policy growth can overburden bureaucracies if implementation capacities are not expanded in lockstep with policy production. This development may undermine policy effectiveness and hence the long‐term legitimacy of democracies. This article provides a systematic analysis of this phenomenon. We demonstrate that (i) overburdening is a general trend in advanced democracies; (ii) the extent of overburdening varies by the institutional context in which policy makers operate; and that, in consequence, (iii) countries' bureaucracies differ in their distance (or closeness) to the “tipping point” after which additional policies do more harm than good. We provide information on the ratio between the policies up for implementation and the bureaucratic capacities available for 21 OECD countries over a period of 45 years (1976–2020), focusing on the areas of environmental and social policy as two major areas of governmental intervention. Bayesian analyses and background interviews serve to illuminate the reasons for and consequences of overburdened bureaucracies.

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Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies

Fernández‐i‐Marín,

Hinterleitner,

Knill

et al. 2023

Public Administration Review

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“…They might, for instance, start 'creaming', prioritizing easier cases (e.g., applicants for social benefits) over more complicated ones (Vedung, 2015). In the end, however, all these coping strategies have detrimental effects on the proper functioning of public policies (Kaplaner & Steinebach, 2023).…”

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Do parties matter for policy accumulation? An analysis of social policy portfolios in 22 countries

FERNÁNDEZ‐I‐MARÍN,

KNILL,

STEINEBACH

2023

European J Political Res

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This article analyses the role of political parties in policy accumulation. We study this relationship in the area of social policy. Our analysis builds on a large data set covering the size of policy portfolios (policy targets and instruments) in three subfields of social policy for 22 OECD countries over 30 years. We find that the probability of social policy accumulation is not affected by the government's ideological position. Left governments do not produce more extensive social policy portfolios than right ones. Yet, this striking result does not contradict governments’ political ideologies, as left and right parties accumulate for different reasons. While left parties address new social policy targets to broaden the scope of the welfare state, right parties adopt new policy instruments to condition social benefits. These findings hold regardless of how we measure governments’ ideological position and despite strong endogenous policy growth dynamics, that is, countries with greater policy portfolios also display higher levels of policy accumulation. Our findings indicate that party political considerations can explain the reasons for but not the level of policy accumulation. Changes in government are thus unlikely to stall or slow down the constant accumulation of public policies.

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“…In the most recent issue of PAR (Volume 84, Issue 1, 2024), we published four open access articles (Barth, 2024;Kaplaner & Steinebach, 2024;Lasseter & Daman, 2024;Podger & Kettl, 2024), accounting for 31% of all peer-reviewed articles in the issue. Open access is available to any author of a manuscript whose institution has an agreement with Wiley for such access.…”

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