This phenomenon may cause confusion even for those with vast experience in public policy, especially since addressing this  BIS Review 8/2008  45  phenomenon requires the policymaker to continuously deconstruct and reconstruct assumptions they base their analysis tools upon. Such an exercise possesses many risks, particularly as the decision of public policy does not allow the luxury of repeatable experiments.
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