The Credibility Scales and Intervention (CSI) Checklist gives an overview of existing levels of credibility that can be linked to possible policies, ranging from intervention to non-intervention. The CSI checklist can thus assist policymakers in becoming aware of, and better reviewing, their opportunities and constraints. These measures vary from:
(1) Ordaining, or commanding what must be done;
(2) Prohibiting, or dictating what cannot be done;
(3) Facilitating, or supporting what needs to be done;
(4) Co-opting, or formalizing what is done;
(5) Condoning, or accepting daily praxis.
More info: “An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights: Opening the Black Box of Institutions”, Journal of Peasant Studies, 2016, 43/6: 1121-44. For applications: Fan et al., 2019; Sun and Ho, 2018; Arvanitidis and Papagianitsis, 2020.
Credibility scales and intervention (CSI) checklist
| Credibility level/trend
|
Institutional intervention | Desired effect
|
| High | Condoning | Accepting praxis by non-intervention |
| Medium high | Co-opting | Formalizing what is done |
| Neutral | Facilitating | Supporting what needs to be done |
| Medium low | Prohibiting | Dictating what shall not be done |
| Low | Ordaining | Commanding what must be done |