The process of integrated policy analysis is a logical reconstruction (reconstructed logic). The process of actually doing policy analysis never completely conforms to this reconstruction, because all logical reconstructions are abstract representations of stylized practices endorsed by the scientific community.31 By contrast, the logic-in-use of practicing analysts, as distinguished from the logical reconstruction of their use of reason and evidence to solve practical problems, always varies from methodological “best practices” due to personal characteristics of analysts, their professional socialization, and the institutional settings in which they work