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Policy is, by definition, goal-oriented, constituting deliberate courses of action in pursuit of some stated aim. Policy goals range from being very broad, for example, improving workforce skills, to being more specific, for example, increasing the number of female graduates in engineering schools (more specific goals are often described as policy objectives). Policy goals emerge from the agenda-setting activities of policy arenas. They are shaped by those interests participating in such arenas, as well as by commonly-held ideas, beliefs and conceptual models. There is also a great deal of path-dependency in policy goals, since once pursued, they attract a range of actors who commit various types of resources (‘sunk-costs’) to that end.
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