Policy Engineering Lab
Social Engineering Through Policy

Policy Case Explorer

Ten cases from the last 25 years — how they worked, why some failed, and what the underlying mechanism was.

Design Workbench

Select a goal, combine tools, set constraints — get a tailored architecture with historical analogues and pitfall warnings.

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Select a goal and at least one tool, then click Generate architecture to see a tailored policy design.

Strategy Playbook

Conservative structural moves paired with progressive counter-moves using the same leverage points toward different ends.

The central argument of this lab: behavioral architecture is a tool, not an ideology. Every row below shows two actors using the same mechanism — accreditation, tax incentives, gatekeeping, price signals — to encode opposite values. The mechanism is neutral. The design is not.