Policy Accumulation and its Impact on Bureaucracies

Abstract

Research on rule growth and policy accumulation indicates that policy-making is predominantly a process of continuous accumulation of increasingly complex policy-mixes. These increasingly complex policy mixes impose elevated implementation burdens on all levels of public administration; particularly the administrative frontline. This panel invites research interested in how bureaucracies (1) cope with increasing implementation burdens and (2) try to undermine policy-makers’ attempts to impose ever-more implementation tasks. This includes papers that evaluate the development of implementation burdens and deficits in different areas as well as papers that assess the nexus between bureaucratic politics and the continuous accumulation of public policies.

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