Policy Analysis and Political Sustainability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric M Patashnik (0000-0001-9272-1240), R Kent Weaver (0000-0002-1771-8794) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1110-1134 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12391 |
| OpenAlex | W3025937762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 52 |
Policies usually have to be sustained for a substantial period of time to have their intended impact, but they may face a number of important political challenges after enactment that can result in their repeal or erosion. These challenges follow recurrent patterns and frequently can be predicted in advance, at least in their broad parameters. Policy analysts should, therefore, consider political sustainability as an important criterion in designing policies and evaluating policy alternatives. Drawing on research on the ways that policies create self‐reinforcing and self‐undermining feedbacks, this article provides a “checklist” of potential sources, risk factors, and warning signs for potential challenges to political sustainability. It also identifies and discusses a set of strategies that both program defenders and challengers can use to achieve their objectives. The article applies this analysis to the case of the Affordable Care Act
Business · Checklist · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Policy analysis · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Repeal · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Sustainability · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Global Development in the Arctic
Policy Feedback
How Do Regional Governments Navigate Policy Integration for Eco‐Industrial Parks? Dimensions and Mechanisms
The politics of glyphosate regulation
Anchoring industrial symbiosis in the context of policy change
Modelling governance for a successful electricity sector decarbonisation
System justification motivation as a source of backlash against equality‐promoting policies—and what to do about it
Why federalism matters
Detecting anticipatory design strategies
Sustaining the unsustainable? The political sustainability of pensions in Finland and the Netherlands
Backlash Politics in America's Disunited and Polarized State
Behavioural knowledge for policy design
Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act
Policy fit
What makes paradigms last? A study of defense policy change in Germany and Italy (1989–2022)
On the eve of ecological transition? The failed institutionalization of sustainable development in Italy (1992–2020)
Implementing digitalization in the public sector. Technologies, agency, and governance
How "institutionalization" can work. Structuring governance for digital transformation in Italy
Policy Analysis
Delegating Powers
Dismantling the Welfare State?
Drift and conversion
After Defeat
The Dog That Almost Barked
Beyond Ideology
Choices, values, and frames
Designing policy robustness
Designing for robustness
The political sustainability of climate policy
The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance
Reconsidering Policy Feedback
How Claims Spread
The Implementation Game
Stalemate
Disjointed Pluralism
Designing policy resilience
Resilience and robustness in policy design
Designing policies that intentionally stick
Remedy and Reaction
When Effect Becomes Cause
Opportunity Structures in the EU Multi-Level System
Federalism by Waiver
You Can't Make Me Do It
Social Constructions, Anticipatory Feedback Strategies, and Deceptive Public Policy
Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act
Varieties of Policy Feedback Research
When and How New Policy Creates New Politics
The Policyscape and the Challenges of Contemporary Politics to Policy Maintenance
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
Policy feedback and self-reinforcing and self-undermining processes in EU biofuels policy
After the Public Interest Prevails
When Policies Undo Themselves
After Enactment
Change, Continuity, and the Evolution of the Law
Congress, Policy Sustainability, and the Affordable Care Act
Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
The Nays Have it
Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State
Protest and Political Opportunities
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |