Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and amidst COVID-19 recovery efforts, the energy
crisis has put enormous pressure to policymakers to balance climate action, sustainable …

As a human capital crisis poses urgent challenges across multiple countries, public
administration scholars and practitioners are concerned with recruitment and selection …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We
extend a Schumpeterian growth model with political connections that help firms ease …

Democratic governments produce more policies than they can effectively implement. Yet,
this gap between the number of policies requiring implementation and the administrative …

Constant policy growth can overburden bureaucracies if implementation capacities are not
expanded in lockstep with policy production. This development may undermine policy …

While policies pile up in modern democracies, the effect of policy growth on policy
implementation has not been addressed so far. Implementation research has focused on …

This article reviews the vibrant literature on policy growth in political science and adjacent
disciplines, thus offering a conceptual framework for situating past and future research …

Research on policy implementation traditionally has focused on understanding the success
or failure of individual policies within specific contexts. Little attention has been given to the …

Democratic governments have constantly added new policies to existing policy stocks to
confront societal, economic, and environmental challenges. This development has the …

We explore the consequences of populism for bureaucrats' incentives by analyzing a model
of delegated policymaking between politicians and bureaucrats. Populist politicians prefer a …