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Handbook of Public Policy Implementation
In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts examine theoretical and empirical research to analyse a core element of the public policy process: implementation. Traversing numerous sub-disciplines and traditions including top-down and bottom-up approaches to public policy implementation research, the chapters present a synthesis of the state of scholarship and stimulate future thinking in the field.
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In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts examine theoretical and empirical research to analyse a core element of the public policy process: implementation. Traversing numerous sub-disciplines and traditions including top-down and bottom-up approaches to public policy implementation research, the chapters present a synthesis of the state of scholarship and stimulate future thinking in the field.
The Handbook of Public Policy Implementation covers both mainstream approaches and newly emerging perspectives towards implementation. Placing emphasis on the intersection between politics and implementation, authors outline how policy success depends on practical application as much as it depends on design. Chapters link the policy process to the different branches of government, investigating various forms of policy implementation across international political systems. They dissect the organizational and individual levels of implementation, using examples from various countries as well as multilevel regimes such as the European Union.
Providing an informed overview of the breadth of research on policy implementation, this Handbook is a key resource for academics, researchers, and students of public policy, public administration and management, political science and sociology, and regulation and governance. It is also a crucial resource for policy practitioners and implementing agents.
The Handbook of Public Policy Implementation covers both mainstream approaches and newly emerging perspectives towards implementation. Placing emphasis on the intersection between politics and implementation, authors outline how policy success depends on practical application as much as it depends on design. Chapters link the policy process to the different branches of government, investigating various forms of policy implementation across international political systems. They dissect the organizational and individual levels of implementation, using examples from various countries as well as multilevel regimes such as the European Union.
Providing an informed overview of the breadth of research on policy implementation, this Handbook is a key resource for academics, researchers, and students of public policy, public administration and management, political science and sociology, and regulation and governance. It is also a crucial resource for policy practitioners and implementing agents.
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‘''This Handbook offers insights into one of the most productive and innovative research areas in the wider field of public policy: implementation research. The chapters explore foundational topics and concepts and recent innovations in this field. Leading authors guide readers from key theories of implementation research to its role within policy process research; the reader finds cross-nationally comparative chapters and those that deep-dive into the organizational and individual levels of analysis. The editors have curated an excellent Handbook, which will prove to be useful for seasoned scholars, early-career researchers and practitioners alike.''
– Kai Wegrich, Hertie School, Germany
‘Since its inception in the 1970s, the field of implementation research has opened investigation into the myriad processes and practices that take place under the rubric of policy once the legislative ink has dried. This Handbook offers a review of approaches and issues to the study of implementation that should be of considerable interest to students, researchers, and practitioners.’
– Evelyn Z. Brodkin, University of Chicago, US
– Kai Wegrich, Hertie School, Germany
‘Since its inception in the 1970s, the field of implementation research has opened investigation into the myriad processes and practices that take place under the rubric of policy once the legislative ink has dried. This Handbook offers a review of approaches and issues to the study of implementation that should be of considerable interest to students, researchers, and practitioners.’
– Evelyn Z. Brodkin, University of Chicago, US
Contents
Contents
Contributors viii
Foreword xxi
Kai Wegrich
Introduction to Handbook of Public Policy Implementation 1
Fritz Sager, Céline Mavrot and Lael R. Keiser
PART I THEORETICAL TENETS
1 Implementation in the analysis of governing 12
Hal K. Colebatch
2 Performance and compliance in public policy implementation 20
Eva G. Heidbreder
3 Public policy implementation and accountability 32
Eva Thomann and Eva Lieberherr
4 The ethics of policy implementation 46
Daniel Engster
5 Adding reputation to the implementation toolbox: shaping social equity
with rules, management, and representation in a “self-made” society 57
Jourdan A. Davis
6 The contribution of feminist theory to policy implementation analysis 70
Samantha June Larson and Mary E. Guy
7 A decolonial approach to policy design and implementation 80
Leona Vaughn and Alex Balch
8 Top-down and bottom-up implementation 94
Aron Buzogány and Helga Pülzl
9 Conflictual policy implementation 105
Nandiyang Zhang and David H. Rosenbloom
10 Trust and implementation 116
Theofanis Exadaktylos and Nikolaos Zahariadis
11 Moving beyond traditional policy implementation: street-level
bureaucrats’ policy entrepreneurship 126
Nissim Cohen
PART II POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORKS OF THE POLICY PROCESS
12 Institutionalism(s) and implementation: sources of implementation failure 135
B. Guy Peters
13 Multiple streams in policy implementation 148
Nicole Herweg and Reimut Zohlnhöfer
14 The advocacy coalition framework and policy implementation 158
Christopher M. Weible, Manuel Fischer and Karin Ingold
15 Narrative policy framework and policy implementation 171
Bettina Stauffer, Johanna Kuenzler and Michael D. Jones
16 Policy instruments and their implementation 182
Philipp Trein
17 Implementation in strategic fields of action 194
Stephanie Moulton and Jodi Sandfort
18 The programmatic action framework and policy implementation 204
Johanna Hornung and Patrick Hassenteufel
19 The “socio-history” of public policy implementation 217
Renaud Payre and Gilles Pollet
20 The missing link: turning social problems into policies 230
Erik Neveu
21 Challenges of policy implementation and the comparative method 242
Iris Geva-May and Guillaume Fontaine
PART III POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND THE BRANCHES OF
GOVERNMENT
22 Policy implementation and legislature 254
Tansu Demir and Christopher G. Reddick
23 Policy implementation and the judiciary 264
Nicholas R. Bednar, Paul J. Gardner and Sharece Thrower
24 The core executive and implementation 278
Martin Smith, David Richards and Sam Warner
25 Politicization and controversies in policy implementation 290
Céline Mavrot
26 Regulation and implementation 301
Jeroen van der Heijden
PART IV POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS
27 Central state policy implementation in France 312
Julie Pollard and Claire Dupuy
28 Member state implementation in the European Union 323
Eva Thomann and Asya Zhelyazkova
29 Member state implementation in the U.S.A. 337
Lael R. Keiser and Susan M. Miller
30 Member state implementation in Canada 351
Charles Conteh
31 Member state implementation in Switzerland 365
Fritz Sager and Lisa Asticher
32 Member state implementation 376
Simon Fink and Eva Ruffing
33 International organizations and policy implementation 385
Yves Steinebach, Christoph Knill and Christian Severin
PART V ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVELS OF
IMPLEMENTATION
34 An intellectual history and state-of-the-art assessment of policy
implementation research and theory 397
Harald Sætren
35 Management and policy implementation 418
Adrian Ritz and Srinivas Yerramsetti
36 Coordination and policy implementation 428
Thurid Hustedt and Ina Radtke
37 Collaborative policy implementation 436
Susanne Hadorn
38 Hybrid co-production of public services 447
Anka Kekez, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh
39 Street-level implementation scenery: frontstage, backstage and the prompter 459
Anat Gofen, Gabriela Lotta, Oliver Meza and Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués
40 A behavioural approach to policy implementation 479
Kathrin Loer and Paula Neher
41 How people experience policies: the study of policy reception 493
Anne Revillard
Contributors viii
Foreword xxi
Kai Wegrich
Introduction to Handbook of Public Policy Implementation 1
Fritz Sager, Céline Mavrot and Lael R. Keiser
PART I THEORETICAL TENETS
1 Implementation in the analysis of governing 12
Hal K. Colebatch
2 Performance and compliance in public policy implementation 20
Eva G. Heidbreder
3 Public policy implementation and accountability 32
Eva Thomann and Eva Lieberherr
4 The ethics of policy implementation 46
Daniel Engster
5 Adding reputation to the implementation toolbox: shaping social equity
with rules, management, and representation in a “self-made” society 57
Jourdan A. Davis
6 The contribution of feminist theory to policy implementation analysis 70
Samantha June Larson and Mary E. Guy
7 A decolonial approach to policy design and implementation 80
Leona Vaughn and Alex Balch
8 Top-down and bottom-up implementation 94
Aron Buzogány and Helga Pülzl
9 Conflictual policy implementation 105
Nandiyang Zhang and David H. Rosenbloom
10 Trust and implementation 116
Theofanis Exadaktylos and Nikolaos Zahariadis
11 Moving beyond traditional policy implementation: street-level
bureaucrats’ policy entrepreneurship 126
Nissim Cohen
PART II POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORKS OF THE POLICY PROCESS
12 Institutionalism(s) and implementation: sources of implementation failure 135
B. Guy Peters
13 Multiple streams in policy implementation 148
Nicole Herweg and Reimut Zohlnhöfer
14 The advocacy coalition framework and policy implementation 158
Christopher M. Weible, Manuel Fischer and Karin Ingold
15 Narrative policy framework and policy implementation 171
Bettina Stauffer, Johanna Kuenzler and Michael D. Jones
16 Policy instruments and their implementation 182
Philipp Trein
17 Implementation in strategic fields of action 194
Stephanie Moulton and Jodi Sandfort
18 The programmatic action framework and policy implementation 204
Johanna Hornung and Patrick Hassenteufel
19 The “socio-history” of public policy implementation 217
Renaud Payre and Gilles Pollet
20 The missing link: turning social problems into policies 230
Erik Neveu
21 Challenges of policy implementation and the comparative method 242
Iris Geva-May and Guillaume Fontaine
PART III POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND THE BRANCHES OF
GOVERNMENT
22 Policy implementation and legislature 254
Tansu Demir and Christopher G. Reddick
23 Policy implementation and the judiciary 264
Nicholas R. Bednar, Paul J. Gardner and Sharece Thrower
24 The core executive and implementation 278
Martin Smith, David Richards and Sam Warner
25 Politicization and controversies in policy implementation 290
Céline Mavrot
26 Regulation and implementation 301
Jeroen van der Heijden
PART IV POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS
27 Central state policy implementation in France 312
Julie Pollard and Claire Dupuy
28 Member state implementation in the European Union 323
Eva Thomann and Asya Zhelyazkova
29 Member state implementation in the U.S.A. 337
Lael R. Keiser and Susan M. Miller
30 Member state implementation in Canada 351
Charles Conteh
31 Member state implementation in Switzerland 365
Fritz Sager and Lisa Asticher
32 Member state implementation 376
Simon Fink and Eva Ruffing
33 International organizations and policy implementation 385
Yves Steinebach, Christoph Knill and Christian Severin
PART V ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVELS OF
IMPLEMENTATION
34 An intellectual history and state-of-the-art assessment of policy
implementation research and theory 397
Harald Sætren
35 Management and policy implementation 418
Adrian Ritz and Srinivas Yerramsetti
36 Coordination and policy implementation 428
Thurid Hustedt and Ina Radtke
37 Collaborative policy implementation 436
Susanne Hadorn
38 Hybrid co-production of public services 447
Anka Kekez, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh
39 Street-level implementation scenery: frontstage, backstage and the prompter 459
Anat Gofen, Gabriela Lotta, Oliver Meza and Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués
40 A behavioural approach to policy implementation 479
Kathrin Loer and Paula Neher
41 How people experience policies: the study of policy reception 493
Anne Revillard
