Executive Politics and Policy Instruments

Abstract

The study of policy instruments has witnessed a revival in the light of a growing interest in non-hierarchical governance settings and in 'low cost' interventions, such as 'nudging'. This panel invites papers that explore the changing context of executive politics and its implications for the choice of policy instruments. This panel is therefore interested in four particular questions. First, how can we understand the interaction between (the changing habitat of) executive politics and the choice of policy instruments? Second, what are the implications of changing policy instrument mixes for executive politics? Third, what explains why some types of policy instruments are accepted by political and societal actors whereas others are not? Fourth, how do policy instruments link to wider debates about supposed shifts towards 'post-bureaucracy'?

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