» Veröffentlicht am
13. März 2024
New Article published in European Policy Analysis
The introduction of the German mandatory lobbying register on the
national level in March 2021 marks an unexpected and substantial policy change
after a 16-year-long debate about stricter transparency measures. Maximilian
Schiffers (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Sandra Plümer (Bielefeld
University) explore this sudden policy change in their new article titled Identifying
Causal Mechanisms of Unexpected Policy Change: Accumulated Punctuation in the
Field of Lobbying Transparency in Germany published in European Policy
Analysis (EPA).
Within their article, Schiffers and Plümer discover that policy change
is triggered by the shift in influence among the actors involved. In this context,
they identify a combination of three mechanisms including the end of a
de-thematization of the policy issue, growing dominance of the issue network
favoring stricter transparency regulations, and issue validation through the
accumulation of scandals. These findings of this case study contribute to a
refined theoretical understanding of the causal mechanisms of policy change.
Article: Schiffers, M. & Plümer,
S. (2024). Identifying causal mechanisms of unexpected policy change: Accumulated
punctuation in the field of lobbying transparency in Germany. European Policy
Analysis, early view https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1205.
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