“…In this regard, the academic debate is still in its infancy. Existing scholarly contributions have primarily concentrated on institutional factors that might affect the dynamics of policy growth, including bureaucratic capacities or the patterns of vertical coordination between policy‐producing and policy‐implementing bureaucracies (Fernández‐i‐Marín, Knill, et al., 2023; Knill et al., 2021). Moreover, studies on rule growth have placed particular emphasis on endogenous growth dynamics, arguing that rules, once adopted, create a constant need for the development of additional laws and regulations (‘rules breed rules’) (March et al., 2000; van Witteloostuijn & de Jong, 2010).…”