Policy into action : implementation research and welfare reform / edited by Mary Clare Lennon and Thomas Corbett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lennon, Mary Clare.

Corbett, Tom, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare administration--United States.

Public welfare administration.

United States.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.

Welfare recipients.

Welfare recipients--Employment.

United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

Physical Description:

xiii, 332 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Urban Institute Press, 2003.

Contents:

1 Implementation studies: from policy to action / Thomas Corbett and Mary Clare Lennon

Part I

2 Perspectives of the ultimate consumers: policy makers and program managers / Joel Rabb and Don Winstead

3 Conceptual underpinnings of implementation analysis / Pamela A. Holcomb and Demetra Smith Nightingale

4 Three generations of implementation research: looking for the keys to implementation "success" / Thomas Kaplan and Thomas Corbett

Part II

5 Field network studies / Irene Lurie

6 Performance analysis / Lawrence M. Mead

7 Street-level research: policy at the front lines / Evelyn Z. Brodkin

8 Client-based ethnographic research as a tool for implementation analysis / Kathryn Edin

9 What lies behind the impacts? implementation research in the context of net impact studies / Kay E. Sherwood and Fred Doolittle

Part III

10 Approaches to data collection for implementation analysis / Leanne Charlesworth and Catherine Born

11 Use of administrative data for implementation research / Robert M. George

Part IV

12 Where we go from here / Rebecca Maynard and Thomas Corbett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0877667144

OCLC:

51558903