The phrase "a rationale for policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the reasoning or justification behind a specific policy decision or approach.
Example: "The report provides a comprehensive rationale for policy changes aimed at improving public health outcomes."
Alternatives: "justification for policy" or "reasoning behind policy".
It surely has a lot to do with the fact that billionaires have always loved the doctrines in question, which offer a rationale for policies that serve their interests.
To review the course of events: Some initiating event, not directly associated science, leads to a policy issue that must be decided on; a debate ensues on the possible policy options and on possible scientific views of the issue; a scientific assessment of the policy issue yields a rationale for a policy choice[ 120, 121].
This constrained suboptimality of competitive allocations might provide a rationale for economic policy in economies with externalities.
Our evidence on the significance of externalities from openness in innovation provides a rationale for public policy aimed at promoting open innovation practices among firms.
They should be providing a rationale for government policy, the way military intelligence advisers did in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.
Politicians complain about their power and influence, but then defer to the agencies by trotting out the threat of a downgrade as a rationale for unpopular policies.
However, these findings should not be interpreted as a rationale for protectionist policies, since globalization has also generated large increases in the standard of living.
GOP governors such as Ohio's John Kasich and New Jersey's Chris Christie are vocal about helping those who have the least in their states, but in Washington, with few exceptions — Paul Ryan among them — Republicans too rarely invoke helping the poor as a rationale for our policies.
Although it became a rallying cry as well as a rationale for the foreign policy that reached its culmination in 1845 46, the attitude behind Manifest Destiny had long been a part of the American experience.
"China's leaders are consistently asked what their position is and whether or not they can help, and it puts them in an awkward position … It could be that over time it creates a rationale for a new foreign policy – that they decide they have to be more active and more willing to take the initiative," said Taylor Fravel of the security studies programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
