This article describes a process for developing tools for analyzing policy. There are four sets of tools: (1) tools to analyze policy "on the books"—that is, to analyze statutes, court decisions, and other policy documents for their coherence with the core concepts; (2) tools to analyze policy "on the street"—that is, to analyze how executive agencies implement the core concepts; (3) tools to determine whether a policy is appropriate to reflect one or more of the core concepts; and (4) tools to connect core concepts to practice and then to quality-of-life outcomes for families.
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