The Companion discusses the 200 most central concepts in top 100 political science journals over the past 10 years. Each entry is based on the 20 most cited articles on the respective concept. I found this bibliometric approach (based on Web of Science data) highly interesting.
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Erik Neimanns
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)
Overall, for the case of policy feedback, I believe that the list of the 20 most-cited articles covers the scientific debate over the last decade quite well. Nevertheless, it was surprising to see some of the texts in the top-twenty list, while other texts that seemed relevant were not included.
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Policy feedback has been ranked on place #190 in terms of the frequency of keyword-based references to the concept (slightly higher than gender equality (#192) or economic policy (#197)).
Erik Neimanns
Nevertheless, policy feedback can be a useful concept for improving our understanding of policy change and stability, the political consequences of policy design, and, more generally, politics for different types of actors.
I have written a short entry on policy feedback for the @ipsa.org Companion to Political Science, an open-access online encyclopedia that has just been published:
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...