The phrase "and capacity to devise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ability or potential to create or formulate ideas, plans, or solutions.
Example: "The team demonstrated their creativity and capacity to devise innovative strategies for the project."
Alternatives: "and ability to create" or "and skill to formulate".
It may be, for example, that what matters is not so much regime type (democracy or not), but the state's actual capacity to devise and implement policy.
Sunday's Manchester derby may present a greater test of a strategist's capacity to devise a winning blueprint.
Nor does that president have the capacity to devise a more effective response, it seems, since any policy solution would require two negotiations.
The possibility of good government, they argued, lay in man's capacity to devise political institutions that would compensate for deficiencies in both reason and virtue in the ordinary conduct of politics.
Successful participation serves as evidence of the two most important skills required of an academic psychologist: the capacity to integrate theoretical and factual material, and to devise and execute a creative empirical research project.
In short, "do no (more) harm" is the best we can hope for until a new president with the intellectual capacity, judgment and will to devise a coherent, united front against Iran is elected.
However, the committee is realistic about what they can and cannot tackle, and is trying to devise systems that make best use of their capacities.
The intent was to roll out a self-led process for capacity assessment in order to devise HSR capacity development strategies for the SPHs and identify where capacity development investments would have the greatest impact.
The ultimate goal is for UNICEF and its partners to devise effective programmes to raise teenagers' capacity for long-term prevention of HIV/AIDS.
The skills that students cultivate are principally the analytic and research capacities that will enable them to identify important unanswered questions and to devise research strategies that enhance our understanding of social problems.
