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Policy Accumulation and the Democratic Responsiveness Trap
Christian Adam
Steffen Hurka
Christoph Knill
Yves Steinebach
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2019-04-11
主題
Law / General
Law / International
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / Comparative Politics
Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
1108481191
9781108481199
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jm2MDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.