ABSTRACT
Information-based tools are those based on the last of the four categories of resources set out by Hood (1986c): ‘nodality’ or ‘centrality’ or, as we have defined it, involved in communicating ‘knowledge’ or ‘information’ to target groups in the expectation this will alter their behaviour. These are the ‘sermon’ in the ‘carrots, sticks and sermons’ formulation of policy instruments.
