- 240 pages
- English
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Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World
About This Book
The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Policy-in-Theory Is Not Policy-in-Practice
- Chapter 1 Adding Structure to Anarchy
- Chapter 2 Administrators, Citizens, and Democratic Governance
- Chapter 3 Decision-Making under Ambiguous Circumstances
- Chapter 4 Organizations, Managers, and Entrepreneurs
- Chapter 5 Functionality and Formalization
- Chapter 6 From Ideas to Action and Actions to Outcomes
- Chapter 7 So, What?
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- Back Cover