• DOI:10.2307/2950710
Corpus ID: 154900007

When Effect Becomes Cause: Policy Feedback and Political Change

@article{Pierson1993WhenEB,
  title={When Effect Becomes Cause: Policy Feedback and Political Change},
  author={P. Pierson},
  journal={World Politics},
  year={1993},
  volume={45},
  pages={595-628}
}

• P. Pierson
• Published 1993
• Political Science
• World Politics

As governmental activity has expanded, scholars have been increasingly inclined to suggest that the structure of public policies has an important influence on patterns of political change. Yet research on policy feedback is mostly anecdotal, and there has so far been little attempt to develop more general hypotheses about the conditions under which policies produce politics. Drawing on recent research, this article suggests that feedback occurs through two main mechanisms. Policies generate… Expand

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