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Institutionalizing Political Monitoring as Part of Policy Design



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Thomas D. Lancaster

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2015.09.002

Building upon previous work (Lancaster, 2014) which defined and theoretically situated political monitoring as an analytical concept, this essay first reiterates the importance of political monitoring to the study of institutions of governance and related policy design. The conceptualization of political monitoring builds upon the psychological notion that people change their behavior if they believe someone is watching them. Second, it discusses theoretically how and why policy design might incorporate political monitoring in order to produce specific outcomes. Third, it presents empirical evidence from several illustrative examples to demonstrate how the institutionalization of political monitoring affects policy outcomes.

political monitoring, institutionalization, policy design