Policy Drift: Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy by Norma M. Riccucci Details
The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of US public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy There is no end to the policy…
The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of US public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy There is no end to the policy process. Although it is often assumed that once the law is passed, it is implemented faithfully, so that policies that are believed to be stable can change or deviate in unexpected directions.
The Fourth Amendment, for example, guarantees US privacy rights, but the September 11 terrorist attacks caused one of the worst cases of government-sponsored espionage. Policy changes by the National Security Agency have led to widespread illegal surveillance, a policy shift that has led to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of wiretaps to the American people.
Much of the research in recent decades ignores the influence of secular forces on large-scale slow movement in political, social and economic environments on public policy. In the drift policy, Norma Rikuchi highlights how institutional powers collectively contribute to major change in three key areas of US policy (privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy) without formulating a new explicit policy. Official Change Cranes - United States. Supreme Court decisions Congressional inaction.
Presidential executive orders - stimulated by social, political or economic forces - regulate the permutations that ultimately shape and define contemporary public policy. Always, new policy applications are included within the political landscape. Political actors, motivated by social and economic factors, can explicitly use strategies to reverse the trend of existing public policies or to disrupt them altogether.
Some segments of the population will benefit from this process, while others will not benefit from it; therefore, "policy drift" has significant consequences for social and economic change. A comprehensive report on unintended changes in rights to privacy, civil rights and climate policy shows how policy change factors can explain how unforeseen changes to change can change the status quo in public policy..
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