Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process

This article proposes a theory that links issue salience and actor polarisation to the uses of learning heuristics in policy process. In harking back research on public policy, behavioural economics, crisis management, we argue makers use two when they update their ideas: policy-oriented power-oriented learning. The develops theoretical expectations link constellations To illustrate expectations, discusses EU anti-crisis policies dealing with 2007–2009 global financial economic its aftermath, as well responses COVID-19 pandemic Germany U.S. pathway cases. Overall, this contributes understanding political ideas