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The Effects of Policy Making on the Design of Economic Policy Instruments: Politics as Usual

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Three scientists are stranded on an uninhabited island. They do not have any food and they cannot return to the world of civilization. The engineer indicates that she is helpless: there are no tools available to build a boat. The political scientist is at a loss: she is not powerful enough to goad any others into action. The economist, however, cries out that he has the answer: let us assume we have the power to make the right equipment arrive, wouldn’t the problem be solved?

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    Peter B. Boorsma (Professor of Public Finance), Kees Aarts (Associate Professor of Public Policy Research Methods) & Albert E. Steenge (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Public Finance),  (Associate Professor of Public Policy Research Methods) &  (Professor of Economics)

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Bressers, H.T.A., Huitema, D. (1997). The Effects of Policy Making on the Design of Economic Policy Instruments: Politics as Usual. In: Boorsma, P.B., Aarts, K., Steenge, A.E. (eds) Public Priority Setting: Rules and Costs. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1487-2_10

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