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. 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.

Table of 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