1. Identify the social and behavioural mechanisms that are expected to solve the social,
organizational or policy problem in question; search formal and informal documents
for statements indicating the necessity of solving these problems, the goals of the
proposed policy or program and how they are to be achieved. These latter statements
refer to mechanisms (or “engines”) that drive the policies or programs and are
believed to make them effective. Examples of this methodology in use in other fields
are manifold. They include determinants of innovation diffusion, mechanisms underlying
Prisoner’s Dilemma games, processes producing social capital, cognitive
dissonance, different types of learning behaviour and many more. Statements having
the following form are especially relevant for detecting these mechanisms