The phrase "policy shaping" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to the act of creating, modifying, or influencing a policy. For example, "The government is working to reduce poverty through policy shaping initiatives."
Mr. Sharon has not hesitated to exploit any flexibility he has detected in American policy, shaping it to match his own agenda.
But from Afghanistan to the Arab Spring, from China to counterterrorism, the lessons of that war still hang over the administration's foreign policy — shaping, and sometimes limiting, how the president projects American power in the world.
Since its independence in 1993, it has projected an aggressive foreign policy, shaping events in the Horn of Africa, though it has only five million people and is one of the poorest countries on earth.
We need also to visualise the way our nation is changing: how are decisions often made in isolation – say HS2, proposed new towns, energy policy, environmental decisions, education and economic policy – shaping the future of the British landscape.
David Cole, a self-proclaimed Holocaust revisionist and Taki magazine columnist, envisaged the movement sliding into bickering and in-fighting, stuck in "rabbit warrens" of online trolling rather than policy shaping.
(I applaud the team-of-rivals idea, practiced by Lincoln in bringing opposed Republicans into his cabinet. Nothing has been more damaging to the Bush administration than the president's distaste for, and incapacity to absorb, vigorous dissent in the policy shaping process).
The economy shapes policy as much as policy shapes the economy, often more so.
How has the one-child policy shaped the character of today's China?
I have a hard time seeing that policy shaped without the UK wanting to be at the table".
"Tax policy shapes almost everything individuals and enterprises do as they participate in the economy," he says on his "Mitt Romney for President" Web site.
It is the part of us that would rather have our public policy shaped by anger and notions of retribution than by ideas about rehabilitation and reconciliation.
