# kaal:claim:2831040-036

**Claim.** Rules operate as a feedback effect on the rulemaking process itself: rules with suboptimal characteristics result from institutional arrangements and then reinforce those suboptimal arrangements, and stable presumptively optimal rules reinforce an institutional structure that perpetuates stability in rules.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Existing rules create a feedback effect for the rulemaking process itself. Rules with suboptimal characteristics are the results of institutional arrangements and reinforce suboptimal institutional arrangements and rulemaking processes.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Dynamic Regulation for Innovation* (2016), IV.2 Optimizing Anticipatory Governance (footnote 6), page 20

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040

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**Failure mode.** self reinforcing suboptimal rulemaking  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** institutional-design, dynamic-regulation

**Keywords.** institutional-feedback, stable-rules, path-dependence, rulemaking-design

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-009
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-032
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-026

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