Policy Implementation in Federal and Unitary Systems

Questions of Analysis and Design

378 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Multiorganizational Arrangements in the Governance of Unitary and Federal Political Systems.- Beyond Organizational Design: Contextuality and the Political Theory of Public Policy.- Comment on Wittrock: Creative Imagination and Appropriate Assemblies.- Forward and Backward Mapping: Reversible Logic in the Analysis of Public Policy.- Policy Subsystems as a Unit of Analysis in Implementation Studies: A Struggle for Theoretical Synthesis.- Comment on Warns ley: The Unit of Analysis as a Methodological Problem.- Policy Subsystems, Networks and the Tools of Public Management.- Small Firm Employment Creation: An Assistance Structure Explanation.- Comment on Hjern and Hull: Implementation Structures and the Importance of Local Actors.- Metropolitan Structure and Systemic Performance: The Case of Police Service Delivery.- Comment on Parks: Fragmented Policy Organizations: A Comment.- Diffusion of Responsibility: An Interorganizational Analysis.- Comment on O'Toole: The Structural Context of Responsibility.- Racial Inequalities in Low-Income Central City and Suburban Communities: The Case of Police Services.- Social Structure and Social Praxis in Interorganizational Policy Analysis.- Comments on Benson and Weitzel: Interorganizational Analysis: A Field for Social Praxis Based On Social Structure, or Strategic Choice and Reticulist Judgement?.- Reflections on Bridge-Building in Complex Terrains: A Postscript.- Strategic Interaction, Learning and Policy Evolution: A Synthetic Hodel.- Implementation Research and Institutional Design: The Quest for Structure.