Public Policies & Institutional Governance
Public Policies & Institutional Governance
- Problem framing accuracy: Is the public problem correctly defined (root causes vs symptoms)?
- Policy objective clarity: Are goals specific, prioritized, and measurable (without metric fetishism)?
- Instrument choice logic: Why regulation vs taxation vs subsidy vs information vs market design?
- Causal mechanism: How the policy is expected to change behavior and outcomes.
- Legal & constitutional fit: Consistency with statutory authority, rights, and due process.
- Institutional capacity: Can agencies realistically implement, monitor, and enforce?
- Incentive effects & gaming: How actors will adapt, evade, or exploit rules.
- Distributional impacts: Who benefits, who bears costs, and over what time horizons.
- Second- and third-order effects: Spillovers, feedback loops, market distortions, political reactions.
- Administrative burden: Costs imposed on citizens, firms, and the state.
- Compliance & enforcement dynamics: Detection, penalties, discretion, and corruption risk.
- Stakeholder legitimacy & trust: Public acceptance, perceived fairness, and credibility.
- Adaptability & review mechanisms: Ability to revise policy as evidence evolves.
- Exit or sunset conditions: When and how the policy should end or be redesigned.