Successful policymaking depends on addressing problems at the right moment.

Evidence

Timeliness of Addressing Problems Timing is important in successful policymaking. If a problem is addressed too early, without adequate understanding of its dimensions or the range of possible solutions, remedial efforts are unlikely to succeed and may merely produce other problems. But if a problem is addressed too late, it may be more difficult Courts do not control when they will confront policy issues, because they do not control their own agendas. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2851

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds Horowitz’s critique of judicial capacity, a standard argument in judicial-process scholarship. — connects to: Commitment to building must precede perfect conditions for change — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2371