Under-Examined behavioural issues
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Identifying types of targets and what motivates targets (policy-takers
behaviour and compliance)
How decision-makers (“policy makers”) design/discover/decide upon
tools
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Measurement and methodological issues
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Describing and delimiting the mechanisms which tools activate to
attain their effects and impacts
Defining and measuring the types of tools found in policy mixes
Measuring performance & effectiveness of tool deployment and mixes
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Implementation
Issues
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Understanding the volatility of tools and mixes – predicting risks of
failure and perverse outcomes)
Understanding government capacity and its impact on tool choices and
use
Multilevel governance dimensions of tool choice and programme creation
Calibrations (substantial or procedural ones) – what they are and how
they are selected
Procedural tools and how they relate to mixes
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