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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
Foreword xxi
Kai Wegrich
Introduction: the notion of policy implementation and why it is important 1
Fritz Sager, Céline Mavrot and Lael R. Keiser
PART I THEORETICAL TENETS
1 An intellectual history and state-of-the-art assessment of policy
implementation research and theory 12
Harald Sætren
2 Implementation in the analysis of governing 33
Hal K. Colebatch
3 Performance and compliance in public policy implementation 41
Eva G. Heidbreder
4 Public policy implementation and accountability 53
Eva Thomann and Eva Lieberherr
5 The ethics of policy implementation 67
Daniel Engster
6 Adding reputation to the implementation toolbox: shaping social equity
with rules, management, and representation in a “self-made” society 78
Jourdan A. Davis
7 The contribution of feminist theory to policy implementation analysis 91
Samantha June Larson and Mary E. Guy
8 A decolonial approach to policy design and implementation 102
Leona Vaughn and Alex Balch
9 Top-down and bottom-up implementation 116
Aron Buzogány and Helga Pülzl
10 Conflictual policy implementation 127
Nandiyang Zhang and David H. Rosenbloom
11 Trust and implementation 138
Theofanis Exadaktylos and Nikolaos Zahariadis
12 Moving beyond traditional policy implementation: street-level
bureaucrats’ policy entrepreneurship 148
Nissim Cohen
PART II POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORKS OF THE POLICY PROCESS
13 Institutionalism(s) and implementation: sources of implementation failure 157
B. Guy Peters
14 Multiple streams in policy implementation 170
Nicole Herweg and Reimut Zohlnhöfer
15 The advocacy coalition framework and policy implementation 180
Christopher M. Weible, Manuel Fischer and Karin Ingold
16 Narrative policy framework and policy implementation 193
Bettina Stauffer, Johanna Kuenzler and Michael D. Jones
17 Policy instruments and their implementation 204
Philipp Trein
18 Implementation in strategic fields of action 216
Stephanie Moulton and Jodi Sandfort
19 The programmatic action framework and policy implementation 226
Johanna Hornung and Patrick Hassenteufel
20 The “socio-history” of public policy implementation 239
Renaud Payre and Gilles Pollet
21 The missing link: turning social problems into policies 252
Erik Neveu
22 Challenges of policy implementation and the comparative method 264
Iris Geva-May and Guillaume Fontaine
PART III POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND THE BRANCHES OF
GOVERNMENT
23 Policy implementation and legislature 276
Tansu Demir and Christopher G. Reddick
24 Policy implementation and the judiciary 286
Nicholas R. Bednar, Paul J. Gardner and Sharece Thrower
25 The core executive and implementation 300
Martin Smith, David Richards and Sam Warner
26 Politicization and controversies in policy implementation 312
Céline Mavrot
27 Regulation and implementation 323
Jeroen van der Heijden
PART IV POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS
28 Central state policy implementation in France 334
Julie Pollard and Claire Dupuy
29 Member state implementation in the European Union 345
Eva Thomann and Asya Zhelyazkova
30 Member state implementation in the U.S.A. 359
Lael R. Keiser and Susan M. Miller
31 Member state implementation in Canada 373
Charles Conteh
32 Member state implementation in Switzerland 387
Fritz Sager and Lisa Asticher
33 Member state implementation in Germany 398
Simon Fink and Eva Ruffing
34 International organizations and policy implementation 407
Yves Steinebach, Christoph Knill and Christian Severin
PART V ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVELS OF
IMPLEMENTATION
35 Management and policy implementation 419
Adrian Ritz and Srinivas Yerramsetti
36 Coordination and policy implementation 429
Thurid Hustedt and Ina Radtke
37 Collaborative policy implementation 437
Susanne Hadorn
38 Hybrid co-production of public services 448
Anka Kekez, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh
39 Street-level implementation scenery: frontstage, backstage and the prompter 460
Anat Gofen, Gabriela Lotta, Oliver Meza and Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués
40 A behavioural approach to policy implementation 480
Kathrin Loer and Paula Neher
41 How people experience policies: the study of policy reception 494
Anne Revillard
Index 506
Foreword xxi
Kai Wegrich
Introduction: the notion of policy implementation and why it is important 1
Fritz Sager, Céline Mavrot and Lael R. Keiser
PART I THEORETICAL TENETS
1 An intellectual history and state-of-the-art assessment of policy
implementation research and theory 12
Harald Sætren
2 Implementation in the analysis of governing 33
Hal K. Colebatch
3 Performance and compliance in public policy implementation 41
Eva G. Heidbreder
4 Public policy implementation and accountability 53
Eva Thomann and Eva Lieberherr
5 The ethics of policy implementation 67
Daniel Engster
6 Adding reputation to the implementation toolbox: shaping social equity
with rules, management, and representation in a “self-made” society 78
Jourdan A. Davis
7 The contribution of feminist theory to policy implementation analysis 91
Samantha June Larson and Mary E. Guy
8 A decolonial approach to policy design and implementation 102
Leona Vaughn and Alex Balch
9 Top-down and bottom-up implementation 116
Aron Buzogány and Helga Pülzl
10 Conflictual policy implementation 127
Nandiyang Zhang and David H. Rosenbloom
11 Trust and implementation 138
Theofanis Exadaktylos and Nikolaos Zahariadis
12 Moving beyond traditional policy implementation: street-level
bureaucrats’ policy entrepreneurship 148
Nissim Cohen
PART II POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORKS OF THE POLICY PROCESS
13 Institutionalism(s) and implementation: sources of implementation failure 157
B. Guy Peters
14 Multiple streams in policy implementation 170
Nicole Herweg and Reimut Zohlnhöfer
15 The advocacy coalition framework and policy implementation 180
Christopher M. Weible, Manuel Fischer and Karin Ingold
16 Narrative policy framework and policy implementation 193
Bettina Stauffer, Johanna Kuenzler and Michael D. Jones
17 Policy instruments and their implementation 204
Philipp Trein
18 Implementation in strategic fields of action 216
Stephanie Moulton and Jodi Sandfort
19 The programmatic action framework and policy implementation 226
Johanna Hornung and Patrick Hassenteufel
20 The “socio-history” of public policy implementation 239
Renaud Payre and Gilles Pollet
21 The missing link: turning social problems into policies 252
Erik Neveu
22 Challenges of policy implementation and the comparative method 264
Iris Geva-May and Guillaume Fontaine
PART III POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND THE BRANCHES OF
GOVERNMENT
23 Policy implementation and legislature 276
Tansu Demir and Christopher G. Reddick
24 Policy implementation and the judiciary 286
Nicholas R. Bednar, Paul J. Gardner and Sharece Thrower
25 The core executive and implementation 300
Martin Smith, David Richards and Sam Warner
26 Politicization and controversies in policy implementation 312
Céline Mavrot
27 Regulation and implementation 323
Jeroen van der Heijden
PART IV POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS
28 Central state policy implementation in France 334
Julie Pollard and Claire Dupuy
29 Member state implementation in the European Union 345
Eva Thomann and Asya Zhelyazkova
30 Member state implementation in the U.S.A. 359
Lael R. Keiser and Susan M. Miller
31 Member state implementation in Canada 373
Charles Conteh
32 Member state implementation in Switzerland 387
Fritz Sager and Lisa Asticher
33 Member state implementation in Germany 398
Simon Fink and Eva Ruffing
34 International organizations and policy implementation 407
Yves Steinebach, Christoph Knill and Christian Severin
PART V ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL LEVELS OF
IMPLEMENTATION
35 Management and policy implementation 419
Adrian Ritz and Srinivas Yerramsetti
36 Coordination and policy implementation 429
Thurid Hustedt and Ina Radtke
37 Collaborative policy implementation 437
Susanne Hadorn
38 Hybrid co-production of public services 448
Anka Kekez, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh
39 Street-level implementation scenery: frontstage, backstage and the prompter 460
Anat Gofen, Gabriela Lotta, Oliver Meza and Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués
40 A behavioural approach to policy implementation 480
Kathrin Loer and Paula Neher
41 How people experience policies: the study of policy reception 494
Anne Revillard
Index 506
