Policy Implementation in Federal and Unitary Systems - Questions of Analysis and Design

List of contents

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.

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• Assisted by: A J Toonen (Editor), A J Toonen (Editor), K. I. Hanf (Editor), K.I. Hanf (Editor), I Hanf (Editor), K I Hanf (Editor), Theo A. J. Toonen (Editor), Theo A.J. Toonen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9789401087506
• ISBN: 978-94-0-108750-6
• No. of pages: 354
• Illustrations: XVI, 354 p.
• Series: Nato Science Series D: (closed); Nato Science Series D: Nato Science Series D:
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education