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Strategic Thinking on the Process and Politics of Policymaking
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
—Sun Tzu1
Strategic Thinking on Policy Development
To be effective, the policy entrepreneur should assess the situational context: whether it is an opportune moment to insert a particular policy problem in the agenda. The assessment of the situational context is similar to the assessment in negotiations of ...
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