policy keyboard
English
editEtymology
editApparently by analogy with the playing of notes on a musical keyboard.
Noun
editpolicy keyboard (plural policy keyboards)
- A range of potential policies from which options can be chosen.
- 1974, Australian Institute of Political Science, Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for Change, page 50:
- They are, in effect, a policy keyboard in which each policy has a primary rationale different from that of fostering technological innovations. Taxation does not serve primarily to encourage invention, for example, but to generate revenue […]
- 2017, Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, Mélissa Levaillant, Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy, page 62:
- These foreign policy goals are not seen as potential contradictions, but as different tunes that can be played on the foreign policy keyboard in any order.