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policy drift: a standalone construct

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Public policy

change in a policy's effects that occurs when policymakers fail to update it as social conditions change around it.

In public policy, policy drift refers to change in a policy's effects that occurs when policymakers fail to update it as social conditions change around it. This meaning comes from Hacker (2004) in American Political Science Review.[1]

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References

  1. Hacker, J. S. (2004). Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States. American Political Science Review, 98(2), 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055404001121

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