| Regulative: policy level ideas | Laws and contracts which stipulate what must happen: basic prescriptions for action to solve a given problem |
| Normative: programmatic ideas | Assumptions and expectations about what should happen: defining problems, consider the issues at stake, set goals, and select the methods or instruments to be applied to the problem |
| Cultural-cognitive: philosophies | Taken-for-granted scripts and mental models about what generally does happen: deeper sets of values, knowledge systems, beliefs, or worldviews |