Cover; Summary of Contents; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Positioning Implementation Studies; Chapter 3 -- Implementation Theory: The Top-down/Bottom-up Debate; Chapter 4 -- Implementation Theroy: The Synthesizers; Chapter 5 -- The Rise and Decline of the Policy-Implementation Paradigm; Chapter 6 -- Implementation Research: The State of the Art; Chapter 7 -- Doing Implementation Research; Chapter 8 -- Governance and Managing Implementation; Chapter 9 -- Conclusions; Appendix: Notes on the Survey of Empirical Articles.
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Bringing the major current insights in implementation research and theory together, Public Policy, Implementation and Governance reviews the literature on public policy implementation, relating it to contemporary developments in thinking about governance.