Reform Capacity (PDF)
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It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should...
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It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should put in place electoral procedures that identify a clear winner in each election, and then we should let the winning political party govern without having to cooperate with others.
The argument of this book is that this view is mistaken, since it seriously underestimates the ability of political decision makers to overcome democratic paralysis by compensating losers (groups that stand to lose from a reform). Reform capacity - the ability of political decision makers to adopt and implement policy changes that benefit society as a whole - can therefore be achieved in both power-concentration systems (which enable governments to ignore losers) and power-sharing systems
(where governments build support for reform by compensating losers).
If political decision makers are able to solve the bargaining problems that sometimes complicate negotiations between winners and losers, power-sharing systems have certain advantages over power-concentration systems. The book argues that power sharing can lead to high reform capacity in societies where interest groups are powerful enough to block reforms; the book also argues that power sharing can lead to high reform capacity when reforms have short-term costs and long-term benefits, since
power sharing helps to correct some of the short-sightedness that is inherent in democratic policymaking.
The argument of this book is that this view is mistaken, since it seriously underestimates the ability of political decision makers to overcome democratic paralysis by compensating losers (groups that stand to lose from a reform). Reform capacity - the ability of political decision makers to adopt and implement policy changes that benefit society as a whole - can therefore be achieved in both power-concentration systems (which enable governments to ignore losers) and power-sharing systems
(where governments build support for reform by compensating losers).
If political decision makers are able to solve the bargaining problems that sometimes complicate negotiations between winners and losers, power-sharing systems have certain advantages over power-concentration systems. The book argues that power sharing can lead to high reform capacity in societies where interest groups are powerful enough to block reforms; the book also argues that power sharing can lead to high reform capacity when reforms have short-term costs and long-term benefits, since
power sharing helps to correct some of the short-sightedness that is inherent in democratic policymaking.
Autoren-Porträt von Johannes Lindvall
Johannes Lindvall is a Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Mass Unemployment and the State (Oxford University Press 2010) as well as articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Politics, And WorldPolitics.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Johannes Lindvall
- 2017, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0191079456
- ISBN-13: 9780191079450
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2017
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