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Implementing Public Policy Michael Hill

Implementing Public Policy By Michael Hill

Implementing Public Policy by Michael Hill

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Second edition of this internationally established introduction to public policy implementation.

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Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance by Michael Hill

The Second Edition of this popular textbook introduces students to the major themes in the study of public policy implementation and relates them to contemporary developments in thinking about governance. Fully revised and updated, the book stresses the continuing importance of a focus on the implementation part of policy processes. Michael Hill and Peter L Hupe suggest strategies for future research on implementation and identify modes of managing implementation as operational governance.

Designed for an international audience, this is a core text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying or conducting research in public policy, social policy, public management, public administration and governance.

Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Visiting Professor at the Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Peter Hupe teaches Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was previously Visiting Professor at the Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Praise for the First Edition:

'An excellent and much needed book. Hill and Hupe have provided a well written and highly accessible account of the development of implementation studies which will be immensely valuable to everyone concerned with understanding implementation in modern policy making' - Professor Wayne Parsons, University of London

Implementing Public Policy Reviews

The second edition of this key text by two of the leading scholars in the field makes it the primary guide to the study of implementation
Martin Powell
Professor of Health and Social Policy, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham

'The second edition of Implementing Public Policy builds on the extremely useful first edition, and is an excellent and timely contribution to the literature on implementation. As well as providing a thorough review of the literature on implementation it makes a number of important contributions to that literature. This volume represents the most extensive and useful treatment of implementation available
B. Guy Peters
Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

'This is by far the best textbook ever published on the topic of public policy implementation... Thus, it gives a much needed up-to-date and complete state-of-the-art review of this research field for graduate students and teachers while at the same time serving as an excellent introduction on the topic for those at the undergraduate level
Harald Saetren
University of Bergen, Norway

'Greatly enriched by recent scholarship, this second edition is even more valuable to students of public policy theory and governance and to a subfield of public administration and political science whose ranks are growing owing to efforts such as this one
Laurence E Lynn, Jr.
Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago

'Implementing Public Policy ...not only gives a detailed overview of state-of the-art theory and research in policy implementation, but also discusses the profound implications of implementation studies for our understanding of the policy-making process. This book is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in public policy
Rene Torenvlied
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

This book is based on the authors' well-acclaimed first edition of the same title. Considerable work has gone into updating and re-contextualizing some of their earlier arguments and analysis in the light of an updated research and literature base. The second edition should be as valuable and well received as the first... This is a very useful publication, likely to be the main guide to implementation for some time
Duncan McTavish
Public Management Review

About Michael Hill

Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy of the University of Newcastle, and Visiting Professor in the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and in the School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton. Michael has published widely on the topic of public policy, and most recently co-edited the SAGE major work Public Policy (with P. Hupe, published 2012). Over the years his research interests have focussed on varied topics such as race relations, unemployment, housing, social security and housing benefit He was given a lifetime achievement award by the Social Policy Association in 2009. Peter Hupe teaches Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2012-2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the theoretical-empirical study of the policy process, particularly implementation and street-level bureaucracy. In a longstanding collaboration he and Michael Hill have published articles in Public Administration, Public Management Review and Policy and Politics. With Aurelien Buffat they edited Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy (2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction Structure of the Book Some Matters of Definition Positioning Implementation Studies Concerns about Implementation: Historical Origins The Rule of Law The Implications of the Idea of Democracy Public Administration and Public Management Institutional Theory Postmodernist Theory The Top-Down/Bottom-Up Debate The Discovery of the 'Missing Link' The Classical Top-Down Authors The Bottom-Up Challenge 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 Implementation and Governance The Age of Interventionism The Age of the Market and Corporate Government The Age of Neo-interventionism Assessment Implementation Theory and the Study of Governance The Stages Model of the Policy Process Alternative Analytical Frameworks The Multiple Governance Framework Studying Implementation as Governance Research Researching Implementation 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 Implementation in Context Implementation in Practice The Quest for Appropriate Action Policy Settings Institutional Environments Operational Governance in Context The Future of Implementation Studies The Objective of Studying Implementation The Study of Governance in Operation Promising Developments

Additional information

GOR012840932
9781412947992
1412947995
Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance by Michael Hill
Michael Hill
Used - Well Read
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2008-12-18
248
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