Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 3
The Institutional Dimension in Policy
Assessment
Insa Theesfeld, Christian Schleyer, Konrad Hagedorn, Jean-Marc Callois,
Olivier Aznar, and Johanna Alkan Olsson
Introduction
There is an urgent need for scientifically well-founded ex-ante policy assessment
from an institutional perspective. Currently, policy analysis focuses mainly on ex-post
policy impact studies to evaluate past policy performance. While there is a vast
amount of institutional ex-post case studies and indicator databanks, there are no
standardised procedures in state-of-the-art institutional economics using this
information for making predictions of the institutional feasibility of policies.
Similarly, there is a need for standardised procedures that can easily be linked to