Abstract
The evolution of public policies in the United States has been characterized as a process involving long periods of
stability followed by abrupt episodes of substantial change. In this project, we identify strands in the literature and
synthesize policy theories into a policy regime model useful in explaining both stability and change. This model
focuses on power arrangements, policy paradigms and organization - factors that operate to maintain long periods of
stability. We demonstrate how stressors - catastrophic events, economic crises, demographic changes, shifts in modes
of production, and others - impact policy regimes and create pressures for change. We argue that the process of policy
regime change - the abrupt episodes of substantial change - occurs with changes in the policy paradigm, alterations
in patterns of power and shifts in organizational arrangements. The old policy regime disintegrates and the new one
emerges with a new policy paradigm, new patterns of power and new organizational arrangements that operate to
maintain long periods of stability.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Administration
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124 articles.
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