Implementing public policy : governance in theory and practice / Michael Hill and Peter Hupe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Michael J. (Michael James), 1937-

Contributor:

Hupe, Peter L.

Series:

Sage politics texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2002.

Summary:

Bringing the major current insights in implementation research and theory together, Implementing Public Policy reviews the literature on public policy implementation, relating it to contemporary developments in thinking about governance, and suggest strategies for both future research on, and management of, public policy implementation.

This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in public policy, social policy, public management, public administration and governance.

Contents:

2 Positioning Implementation Studies 18

Concerns about implementation: historical origins 20

The rule of law 22

The implications of the idea of democracy 28

Institutional theory 32

Postmodernist theory 37

3 Implementation Theory: The Top-down/Bottom-up Debate 41

The discovery of the 'missing link' 41

The classical top-down writers 44

The bottom-up challenge 51

4 Implementation Theory: The Synthesizers 57

Key contributions 57

5 The Rise and Decline of the Policy-Implementation Paradigm 85

The first phase 86

Distance in prosperity 91

Pragmatism in the new millennium 96

Evaluation 105

The future of implementation studies 112

6 Implementation Research: The State of the Art 116

Dependent variables 120

Independent variables 123

7 Doing Implementation Research 138

Quantification 141

The dependent variable 145

Handling the formation/implementation relationship in research 147

Levels and layers in the implementation process 149

Horizontal inter-organizational relationships 150

Looking at part of the process 151

Causal versus manipulable variables 152

A worked example 153

8 Governance and Managing Implementation 160

The practice of managing implementation 161

Policy recommendations in implementation studies 167

The quest for appropriate action 175

Governance in context 181

Managing implementation 187

Implementation as operational governance 193

Appendix Notes on the Survey of Empirical Articles 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

0761966285

0761966293

OCLC:

49595063