policy keyboard

policy keyboard

English

Etymology

Apparently by analogy with the playing of notes on a musical keyboard.

Noun

policy keyboard (plural policy keyboards)

1. 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.