I find the ‘political entrepreneur’ model useful here. It predicts that a politician would be willing to make changes to these sorts of policies once the balance of costs to them and benefits to them weighs in favour of changing it.
Perhaps this is a case where the best way to change public policy is to change public sentiment → create a large enough political benefit to outweigh the special interests cost.
I think this will tend to be correct when the policy involves large costs as well as gains to society. For some of the policies we’re interested in that could be right; some of them shouldn’t need that.
Perhaps this is a case where the best way to change public policy is to change public sentiment → create a large enough political benefit to outweigh the special interests cost.
I think this will tend to be correct when the policy involves large costs as well as gains to society. For some of the policies we’re interested in that could be right; some of them shouldn’t need that.