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Policy Instruments and Administrative Capacities

  • Administrative capacities are required to give effect to policy instruments. While seemingly obvious, policy research has, as yet, not systematically linked these two perspectives. The policy instrument perspective emerged in the context of implementation research and the wider debate about changing modes of governance. Administrative capacities and resources always played a role in this research, but cumulative empirical exploration or theory building has remained underdeveloped. A stronger integration of administrative capacity perspectives into research on policy instruments is essential so as to progress our understanding regarding the choice, design, and operation of policy instruments. A stronger policy orientation in research on administrative capacities can help to address limitations of indicator-based studies of capacity, which currently dominate empirical research on administrative capacities. The design and choice of policy instruments has an effect on administrative capacities: Capacity-reinforcing policies can be distinguished from capacity-undermining ones. A challenge for future research is under which conditions will politicians invest in administrative capacities, an investment that will only yield (uncertain) positive outcomes in the medium term.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Kai WegrichORCiD
Editor(s):William R. Thompson
Parent Title (English):Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Place of Publisher:Oxford
Publication year:2021
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1370
ISBN:9780190228637
Release Date:2021/04/21
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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