Policy Reform As Collective Action
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Summary:
A government desiring support for its policy reform program, without coercion, behaves as if it faces a political constraint. Citizen support depends on the estimate, by at least some minimum proportion of the population, that the program will succeed and the outcome will be in their individual self-interest. Government behavior has implications for the program, whose contents constitute the set of signals used by citizens to estimate the probability that the program will succeed. The government uses various devices to mobilize support for its program. An informed expert could design a program acceptable to both the government and the citizens.
Series:
Working Paper No. 1997/163
Subject:
English
Publication Date:
December 1, 1997
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451980608/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA1631997
Pages:
28
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