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- Vincent Anesi & T Renee Bowen (2018): Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules
We study conditions under which optimal policy experimentation can be implemented by a committee. ... When committee members are allowed to redistribute resources (even arbitrarily small amounts), there always exists an equilibrium that supports optimal experimentation for any voting rule with no veto players. With veto players, however, optimal policy experimentation is possible only with a sufficient amount of redistribution. We conclude that veto rights are more of an obstacle to optimal policy experimentation than constraints on redistribution.
RePEc:not:notcdx:2018-09 Save to MyIDEAS - Kate Mattocks (2021): Policy experimentation and policy learning in Canadian cultural policy
This article examines policy experimentation in the context of policy learning in Canadian cultural policy. Despite the attraction of experimentation to encourage learning and thus improved policy outcomes, much of the literature on experimentation does not give sufficient attention to how it is operationalized in practice. Drawing from a novel dataset based on interviews with key actors, this article focuses on how the governance of experimentation impacts learning resulting from experimentation. Findings ultimately demonstrate that while learning occurred, it was constrained overall by a hierarchical, top-down approach to experimentation. Lessons from this case study can therefore be useful for both policy scholars and public administrations embarking on experimentation or other types of public sector innovation in Canada and beyond.
RePEc:kap:policy:v:54:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1007_s11077-021-09433-3 Save to MyIDEAS - Giampaolo Garzarelli & Lyndal Keeton (2016): Policy Experimentation and Intergovernmental Grants in a Federal System
A public sector organization that is often invoked to aid with this challenging activity is fiscal federalism, for a federation can act as a laboratory for policy experimentation. ... This lacuna is puzzling, for grants are fundamental policy tools for federations. We develop an approach that fills this lacuna by interpreting grants as fiscal institutions for policy innovation: policy experimentation is encouraged or discouraged depending on the degree of grant conditionality, and a simple heuristic expresses mistake-ridden learning from experimentation.
RePEc:saq:wpaper:8/16 Save to MyIDEAS - Tim Willems (2013): Political Accountability and Policy Experimentation: Why to Elect Left-Handed Politicians?
In an environment where voters face an inference problem on the competence level of policy makers, this paper shows how subjecting these policy makers to reelection can reduce the degree of policy experimentation to the benefit of the status quo. This may be a reason why some notable policy experiments were implemented by non-accountable regimes (cf. ... Whether experimentation in representative democracies is suboptimally low, depends on society's degree of risk aversion relative to that of the decision maker. If the level of experimentation is suboptimal, taking decisions by direct democracy, or electing risk-loving politicians could improve welfare.
RePEc:oxf:wpaper:647 Save to MyIDEAS - Reza Hasmath & Jessica C. Teets (2023): Cadres and local policy experimentation
This chapter looks at the personality characteristics of Chinese policymakers and its relationship with policy experimentation. ... These personality characteristics provide insight into why certain Chinese policymakers have a penchant to engage in policy experimentation, and others do not, regardless of acting in the same policymaking ecology.
RePEc:elg:eechap:20565_6 Save to MyIDEAS - Cai, Hongbin & Treisman, Daniel (2009): Political Decentralization and Policy Experimentation
Since 1932, when Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that in a federal system states can serve as "laboratories" of democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. ... We find that the electoral logic suggests the opposite conclusion: centralization usually leads to "too much" policy experimentation, compared to the social optimum, while decentralization leads to "too little.
RePEc:now:jlqjps:100.00008039 Save to MyIDEAS - Renee Bowen & Vincent Anesi (2018): Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules
We study optimal policy experimentation by a committee. ... When redistribution is allowed (even small amounts), there always exists an equilibrium that supports optimal experimentation for any voting rule without veto players. With veto players, however, optimal policy experimentation is possible only with a sufficient amount of redistribution. We conclude that veto rights are more of an obstacle to optimal policy experimentation than constraints on redistribution.
RePEc:nbr:nberwo:25033 Save to MyIDEAS - Bowen, T. Renee & Anesi, Vincent (2018): Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules
We study conditions under which optimal policy experimentation can be implemented by a committee. We consider a dynamic bargaining game in which, each period, committee members choose to implement a risky reform or implement a policy with known returns. ... When committee members are allowed to redistribute resources (even arbitrarily small amounts), there always exists an equilibrium that supports optimal experimentation for any non-collegial voting rule. With collegial voting rules, however, optimal policy experimentation is possible only with a sufficient amount of redistribution. We conclude that veto rights, not constraints on redistribution, constitute the main obstacle to optimal policy experimentation.
RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:12797 Save to MyIDEAS - Cherry, Barbara A. (2015): Canadian policy experimentation under federalism
This article examines why recent telecommunications policy outcomes are diverging between the U.S. and Canada, notwithstanding the similarities in their common law and statutory law histories. ... The role of differing administrative procedures and policymaking forums is an important factor contributing to recent policy divergence. Historical analysis also reveals the importance of the role of path dependence from some early differences in U.S. and Canadian policy choices made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These differences in early policy choices emerged from (1) differences in federalism structures between the U.S. and Canada; (2) negation of Bell patents in Canada that triggered an earlier era of telephony competition as well as both federal and provincial policy experimentation; and (3) AT&T׳s unique public relations campaign of regulated monopoly developed in the U.S. in response to this earlier policy experimentation in Canada. ... The resonance of early policy differences between the U.S. and Canada illustrates the complexity of pursuing telecommunications policy debates within multi-jurisdictional legal frameworks — a challenge that the European Union currently faces in developing a Telecommunications Single Market.
RePEc:eee:telpol:v:39:y:2015:i:6:p:463-485 Save to MyIDEAS - Zhengbo Peng & Su Yang & Liying Dong & Jinhan Sun (2024): An Effective Alternative, Policy Experimentation, and the Multiple Streams Framework: An Empirical Study of Chinese Rural Governance Policy Output
The study extends the MSF using the perspective of generating effective alternatives in the policy stream to explain the dynamic of the policy process. This article is an empirical study that compares two cases under the same holistic policy issues. ... The results show that: First, the partial coupling (politics and problems) opens the policy window for policy formulation, which drives the policy stream forming. ... Third, policy experimentation constitutes an essential tool for formulating effective options. Further comparing the policy stream in the MSF with the policy stream in this study found clear differences.
RePEc:sae:sagope:v:14:y:2024:i:1:p:21582440231220104 Save to MyIDEAS