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Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World.

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Fowler, Luke
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Policy sciences.
Political planning.
Decision making.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Policy-in-Theory Is Not Policy-in-Practice
  • Implementation, Policy, and Failure
  • Implementation at an Intersection
  • Using the Multiple Streams Framework to Examine Implementation
  • Outline of the Book
  • Chapter 1 Adding Structure to Anarchy
  • An Ambiguous Concept
  • The Multiple Streams Framework
  • Implementation in Organized Anarchies
  • Is Ambiguity a Bad Thing?
  • Chapter 2 Administrators, Citizens, and Democratic Governance
  • A Causal Pathway of Democratic Governance
  • What's an Implementer? Who's an Implementer?
  • Policymaking and Administrative Discretion
  • Democratic Accountability
  • Hollowed-Out Government
  • Citizens and Implementation
  • Chapter 3 Decision-Making under Ambiguous Circumstances
  • Intuitive versus Deliberative Judgment
  • Cognitive Biases in Search and Selection
  • Implementation Preferences under Varying Circumstances: A Survey Experiment
  • Who Is Paying Attention to What?
  • Chapter 4 Organizations, Managers, and Entrepreneurs
  • Imposing Organization on Anarchy
  • Power, Authority, and the Art of Manipulation
  • Organizational and Managerial Influences: Interviews with Managers and Implementers
  • Management Matters
  • Chapter 5 Functionality and Formalization
  • Making Policy Functional
  • Building Processes
  • Connecting Functions and Processes
  • Best Practices for Environmental Policy: A Natural Experiment
  • Getting to Green Tape
  • Chapter 6 From Ideas to Action and Actions to Outcomes
  • Implementation in the Bigger Picture
  • From Policy to Governance
  • An Empirical Model of US Environmental Policy Governance
  • How Ideas Become Change
  • Chapter 7 So, What?
  • Summative Points on Policy Implementation
  • Implications for Theory
  • Empirical Challenges and Future Research
  • Implications for Democratic Governance
  • Appendix
  • Methods Memo for Chapter 3
  • Methods Memo for Chapter 4
  • Methods Memo for Chapter 5
  • Methods Memo for Chapter 6
  • References
  • Index

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