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The Conundrum of Policy Stability: The Case of Afghanistans Centralized Planning and Budgeting Policies
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- Issue Date
- 2022-03-01
- Citation
- Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol.10 No.1, pp. 159-183
- Keywords
- policy stability
; lock-in effect
; political economy
; centralized policy
process ; Afghanistan
- Abstract
- This paper explores why Afghanistans centralized planning and budgeting policies,
despite consistent failure to improve local participation and allocative efficiency,
remained stable. Based on policy feedback theory, there are two explanations. First,
policy actors, given their interests, often tend to keep the status quo unchanged; and
second, policymaking processes play a facilitative role for policy actors. This paper
explains how centralized policymaking processes enable policy actors to bypass
specific constraints of institutional environment such as agenda setting, principalagent
dynamics, information symmetry, and credible commitment to keep certain
policies unchanged. With the recent collapse of Afghan state, the Taliban would
most likely continue the centralized planning and budgeting policies given their past
governance approach and their recent performance.
- ISSN
- 2288-2707
- Language
- English
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