Implementation occurs as a 'late'part in the stages model of the policy process. As such, it is
seen as following upon and subordinate to the preceding stages of agenda-setting and …

Meta-reviews of the implementation literature have constantly bemoaned a lack of theory in
this area. This is partially a function of the policy sciences having inherited a tradition of …

Since the demise of what has been labelled as the policy-implementation paradigm, the
heyday of implementation research appears to be over. This suggests that the issues going …

The conventional'top down'approach to the conceptualisation of the implementation process
has come under attack in recent years. It has been argued that policy does not necessarily …

The paper offers an introduction to analysis of the policy process. It identifies and describes
theoretical approaches in political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations …

The idea that policy development can be thought of as a series of steps in a decision-making
process was first broached systematically in the work of Harold Lasswell, a pioneer in the …

One of the earliest topics addressed by policy analysts was public policy implementation.
Starting with the seminal work of Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky, policy …

Mountain islands of theoretical structure, intermingled with, and occasionally attached
together by foothills of shared methods and concepts, and empirical work, all of which is …

Implementation research has come to mean many things. When it was introduced, some ten
years ago, it was an attempt to problematize the public administration reflex of separating …

While policy design is a relatively recent term in the social science literature, the concept
itself is ancient. The modernist incarnation, from the mid-20th century onwards, is grounded …