Introduction
Introduction
Structure of the book
Some matters of definition
Notes
Positioning Implementation Studies
Introduction
Concerns about implementation: Historical origins
The rule of law
The idea of democracy and its implications
Public Administration and Public Management
Institutional theory
Postmodernist theory
Conclusion
Notes
Implementation Theory: The Top-Down/Bottom-Up Debate
The discovery of the ‘missing link’
The classical top-down authors
The bottom-up challenge
Conclusion
Implementation Theory
The search for a synthesis
Where does implementation begin
Layers in policy processes
Networks: Broadening the horizontal dimension
Managing performance: Redefining the vertical dimension
Differentiating policy types
Including responses of affected actors
Conclusion
Implementation and Governance
Introduction
The age of interventionism
The age of the market and corporate government
The age of neo-interventionism
Assessment
Conclusion
Notes
Implementation Theory and the Study of Governance
Introduction
The stages model of the policy process
Alternative analytical frameworks
The Multiple Governance Framework
Studying implementation as governance research
Conclusion
Notes
Researching Implementation
Introduction
Defining studies of implementation
Explaining what needs explanation
Isolating implementation
Dealing with layers
Specifying inter-organizational relationships
Differentiating agency responses
Identifying stakes
Recognizing macro-parameters
Quantitative versus qualitative studies
Conclusion
Implementation in Context
Introduction
Implementation in practice
The quest for appropriate action
Policy settings
Institutional environments
Operational governance in context
Conclusion
Notes
The Future of Implementation Studies
Introduction
The objective of studying implementation
The study of governance in operation
Promising developments
Conclusion
Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the
University of Newcastle, UK. Before entering academic life at
the University of Reading he was a street-level bureaucrat in a
local social assistance office. He later worked on research at the
Universities of Oxford and Bristol on the implementation of social
policy. Since retiring from Newcastle he has held part-time
visiting professorships in London University at Goldsmiths College
and Queen Mary College and also in the London School of Economics
and the University of Brighton. His long-standing text The Public
Policy Process reached its eighth edition in 2021 in a joint
version with Frédéric Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020
he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoë Irving
of the University of York.
Peter Hupe is Visiting Professor at the Public Governance
Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is also Honorary Senior Research
Fellow at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham,
UK. While teaching Public Administration at Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he had academic affiliations in Leiden,
Leuven, London, Oxford and Potsdam. The major part of his research
regards the theoretical-empirical study of policy processes,
particularly implementation and street-level bureaucracy. He
discovered the relevance of the latter during an earlier career as
a policymaker in the Dutch national civil service. Publishing
regularly in journals like Public Administration, Public Policy and
Administration and Public Management Review, in 2019 he composed
the Research Handbook of Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor
of Government in Context. With Tony Evans he edited Discretion and
the Quest for Controlled Freedom (2020).
This updated edition consolidates its position as the leading text
on implementation, and is fast approaching the status of a ’modern
classic’. With its comprehensive coverage of the field by two
leading scholars, it will be valuable to both students and
specialists.
*Professor Martin Powell*
The Third Edition of Implementing Public Policy enhances what has
become the gold standard for navigating the literature about policy
design, implementation, and governance. This edition serves
as a clarion call for rethinking how policies serve as instruments
for governing.
*Peter J. May*
In this new edition, Michael Hill and Peter Hupe provide an
essential handbook to students, teachers, and practitioners of the
art of implementation. The authors′ thoughtful and
theoretically-informed perspective brings clarity and insight to
the study and practice of implementation.
*Professor Evelyn Brodkin*
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