Architectural Policy Design: How Policy Makers Try to Shape Policy Feedback Effects When Designing Policies

Abstract

How do politicians use policies strategically for their own political benefit and to achieve long-term political goals, and how does such strategic behavior in- fluence the design of policies? Answering these questions is crucial for under- standing key dynamics, challenges, limitations and opportunities of public policy making, for explaining strategic choices policy makers make when they design new policies and political struggles they engage in with their oppo- nents.