Capacities and customization in policy design

• Main Authors: MUKHERJEE, Ishani, BALI, Azad
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2759; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4016/viewcontent/RoutledgeHandbooks_9781351252928_chapter24__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Most policy designers face complex and intractable challenges that require assembling the mostappropriate set of policy instruments to address complex policy goals, especially when sometimesthese goals may emerge out of unforeseen policy problems. In the ideal case of policy design, themost suitable instruments can be chosen and assembled into new policy packages that are appropriately calibrated and customized to address the new policy problem context. Such exceptionaldesign circumstances would also mean that relevant policy actors and organizations engaged inthe design activity are endowed with the necessary analytical, operational and political policycapacities.