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.