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If improving policy relevance in academia—as well as the ability of the policy world to consume academic research—is an important goal, the question of what exactly policy relevance “is” becomes a vital one. Associate Professor Michael Horowitz highlights the notion of “policy actionability” in this new contribution to bridging the academic-policy gap from War on the Rocks’ The Schoolhouse series.