This post gives a nice framework, but the article should be half as long.
Also, I wonder how much can be learned from an abstract understanding here. Consider economists studying firms: they can learn some general principles, but they’re not in a position to go run a business (“if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”). Similarly, my prior is that studying institutional decision-making is not going to produce actionable knowledge that can be used in the real world. That would require learning about the specific problems facing (say) DFID.
This post gives a nice framework, but the article should be half as long.
Also, I wonder how much can be learned from an abstract understanding here. Consider economists studying firms: they can learn some general principles, but they’re not in a position to go run a business (“if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”). Similarly, my prior is that studying institutional decision-making is not going to produce actionable knowledge that can be used in the real world. That would require learning about the specific problems facing (say) DFID.