Policy Bubble: A Qualitative Study in Public Service Sector Policies of I. R. Iran

over the years, one of the most challenging issues in the policy-making of Iran's public service sector has been the formation of a kind of bubble, both positive and negative, which has led to the occurrence of inflation and stagnation in policies in this area. In general, the bubble phenomenon addresses the issue of the existence of a discrete policy balance in terms of the amount of attention, investment, and reactions that are more or less and more than the size of the government in solving public problems. The purpose of this study is to understand what has happened in the public service sector of Iran.

in this Article, by studying the texts of public policy and in-depth interviews with some knowledgeable experts, with the Grounded Theory Strategy, makes the understanding of this phenomenon possible. Research

Initially, 80 concepts were identified as open source. These findings are based on the micro-objectives of the research in three sections: causes of out-ofmoderation, the context affecting out of moderation, typology out-of- moderation policy in the public services sector and according to theme analysis in 26 sub-themes and seven main themes.

The results show that the policy bubble is based on the involvement of four factors: supply context, demand context, supply and demand environment context and the essence of the policy context in the policy-making process of Iran's public services by distorting the supply and demand of the policy, from three axes: recession, inflation, inflationary stagnation policy is formed; and also based on the confrontation between factors and reasons, 12 types of policy bubbles have been identified in this study.