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Complex policy processes, characterized by ambiguity, conflict and unanticipated effects, have raised questions for positivist types of outcomes and forms of measurements in public policies, as they lack understanding of how processes can be empirically linked and related to effects. This refers to a relevant knowledge gap in Public Policy and Management Studies: the need to better understand and systematize what and how causal mechanisms or processes can effectively, and in varied contexts, affect outcomes. In this chapter we draw attention to the need to develop and apply comprehensive synthesis or forms of measurements of policy processes and their effects. We focus on policy mechanisms or theoretical policy drivers that provide clues about where to look in the public policy process and on ways to measure them, in order to give depth to analyses of the effects of the political process in a systematic and …