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Implementation and the Policy Process - Opening Up the Black Box (Hardcover)
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Implementation and the Policy Process - Opening Up the Black Box (Hardcover)
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During the past two decades public policy analysis has focused on
the role of implementation as a distinct phenomenon in the creation
of policy output. More recently, implementation researchers have
called for a major reevaluation of the process of policy formation
itself. This book presents an overview of why implementation
research has contributed to this major reconsideration and offers
conceptual frameworks that employ implementation research to
develop a fuller understanding of the entire policy process. It
attempts to narrow the divide between the assumptions of the
earlier and later implementation researchers. The contributors to
this book aim at clarifying the relationship between implementation
research and public policy analysis. They caution against the error
of assuming that implementation is the main factor in policy making
and that once implementation is taken care of, policies will be
effective. They attempt to place implementation in the broader
policy making process and show its relationship to the other parts
of the policy cycle. Additionally, several of the contributors
develop explanatory models that cut across the research dichotomies
of the prevailing top-down and bottom-up approaches and establish
an agenda for future research. The book is divided into three
parts; within each the chapters are organized by questions that
move from the more empirical to more methodological and theoretical
concerns. The chapters in the first section deal with policy design
issues and empirical aspects of implementation research. Those in
part two present implementation's special contribution to the
policy field, discussing how policy implementation adapts to
changing organizational, intergovernmental, and ideological
circumstances. The generalizations made by the authors focus on the
contribution implementation research makes to understanding the
entire policy process. The final section includes chapters that
capture and extend the observations of the other contributors.
These essays also develop generalizations and suggest various lines
of future research. The final chapter both summarizes
implementation's contributions and proposes an interpretive model
that will forward future research. This comprehensive work can be
used in courses on public policy and administration, and social
welfare.
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