POLICY FEEDBACK
THE FOUNDING ARGUMENT OF HISTORICAL NEOINSTITUTIONALISM
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https://doi.org/10.4322/tp.30104Abstract
This article examines the idea that “policies make politics”. I seek to
place this idea in the ongoing theoretical debate and demonstrate how it
rejects behaviorist premises, as well as Harold Lasswell and David Easton’s
classical model. The policy feedback argument and its ramifications
substantiate reference literature on policy analysis, which makes it the
founding argument in the field of historical institutionalism. I show that the
mechanism initially takes shape from the standpoint of state bureaucracy, as it
affects the state’s administrative capacities, learning, and articulation with non-
state actors. Paul Pierson then increases its scope, showing that the role
policies play as resources, incentives, and sources of information is not
restricted to government elites and interest groups, but may also apply to the
electorate’s behavior more broadly. This discussion outlines key policy
analysis concepts, highlights the internal nuances of the field, and sheds light
on how theories and their analytical gains have developed historically.
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