When Policies Undo Themselves: Self-Undermining Feedback as a Source of Policy Change

By Alan Jacobs, R. Weaver. 2015

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• When Do Institutions “Bite”? Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change (2016, background): “Even so, institutional reform can become highly salient due to “triggering events” such as a crisis or an external shock (e.g., Baumgartner & Jones, 1993, pp. 129-130; Jacobs & Weaver, 2015, p. 450).”
• Anticipatory and reactive forms of blame avoidance: of foxes and lions (2016, unknown): “Salience is high when (policy) losses are concentrated and immediate, that is when event A erupts into a dramatic focusing event A BW (Jacobs and Weaver, 2015), or when core public values have been threatened (Brändström and Kuipers, 2003) and the social cleavages regarding these values are low…”
• The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions (2019, background): “Negative feedback mechanisms have been found to be most prevalent where layering of policy mix elements leads to complexity and inconsistency (Jacobs and Weaver 2015), and elements seek to”