Policy Bubbles: Collected Essays - Couverture rigide

Maor, Moshe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1035387352 ISBN 13 : 9781035387359

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

This authoritative book explains the phenomenon of sustained policy overinvestment or overreaction over extended periods. These long-term patterns of policy overproduction, known as policy bubbles, arise from psychological dynamics, institutional routines, and deliberate strategic action that generate positive feedback loops and lock policymakers into persistent overinvestment.

Leading expert Moshe Maor underscores the need to examine policy bubbles across their full life cycle: emergence, maturation, and termination or incorporation. Drawing on diverse case studies ― including the NATO expansion foreign policy bubble, the corresponding political bubble in the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. crime policy bubble ― the book traces the full life cycle of real-world policy bubbles and outlines how governments can better detect, understand, and respond to them. Through this analysis, Maor provides a comprehensive account of how policy bubbles persist and why uncovering their underlying drivers is essential for designing proportionate, evidence-aligned, and resilient policies.

Investigating a highly relevant policy anomaly, Policy Bubbles is an essential resource for scholars and students of public policy, public administration, and public management. Economists studying financial and asset bubbles, as well as government analysts, will likewise benefit from its groundbreaking insights.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Moshe Maor, Professor of Political Science, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University, Israel

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1035387352
• ISBN 13: 9781035387359
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible