While policy implementation no longer frames the core question of public management and public policy, some scholars have debated appropriate steps for revitalization. And the practical world stands just as much in need now of valid knowledge about policy implementation as ever. Where has all the policy implementation gone? Or at least all the scholarly signs of it? And why? What has the field accomplished? Should a resurgence of attention to the subject be exhorted? And if so, in what directions? 

This article considers these questions as foci of an assessment of the state of the field, and the argument reaches somewhat unconventional conclusions: There is more here than meets the eye. While modest to moderate progress can be noted on a number of fronts, an initial assessment is likely to understate the extent of work underway on matters quite close to the implementation theme. Research on policy implementation-like questions has partially transmogrified. One has to look, sometimes, in unusual places and be informed by a broader logic of intellectual development to make sense of the relevant scholarship. Policy implementation work, in short, continues to bear relevance for important themes of policy and management. But some of the discourse has shifted, the questions have broadened, and the agenda has become complicated. Research on implementation, under whatever currently fashionable labels, is alive and lively.

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Research on policy implementation: assessment and prospects

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Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: An extended concept and framework for analysis

Part I: The Conceptual Challenge of European Governance Chapter 1. Introduction: Network governance in the European Union Rainer Eising and Beate Kohler-Koch Chapter 2. The evolution and transformation of European governance Beate Kohler-Koch Part II: The Transformation of European Governance: Variations on a Theme Chapter 3. Transformation in European environmental governance Andrea Lenschow Chapter 4. Regulating genetic engineering in the European Union: a post-structuralist perspective Herbert Gottweis Chapter 5. European social policy: towards multi-level and multi-actor governance Gerda Falkner Chapter 6. Economic and Monetary Union in Europe: a transformation of governance Kenneth Dyson Chapter 7. Planes, trains, and automobiles: transport governance in the European Union Mark Aspinwall Chapter 8. Governance transformation in the professional services sector: a case of market integration 'by the back door'? Jill Lovecy Part III: The European Union and the Transformation of National Patterns of Governance Chapter 9. National patterns of governance under siege: the impact of European integration Vivien Schmidt Chapter 10. Business, governance structures and the EU: the case of Denmark Niels Chr. Sidenius Chapter 11. Perceptions of governance in Greek state retreat: implementing policy change against policy-making persistence George Pagoulatos Chapter 12. Reshuffling power. The liberalisation of the EU electricity markets and its impact on the German governance regime Rainer Eising Part IV: Theoretical, Normative, and Comparative Perspectives on European Governance Chapter 13. Defending state autonomy: intergovernmental governance in the European Union Klaus-Dieter Wolf Chapter 14. Government, governance, governmentality: understanding the EU as a project of universalism Thomas O. Hueglin Chapter 15. Governance in the European Union. A comparative assessment Rainer Eising and Beate Kohler-Koch

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The Transformation of Governance in the European Union

This manuscript provides the first systematic test of a formal theory of managing government programs in a network context (see O’Toole and Meier 1999) Using data from several hundred school districts in Texas, we create a measure of network management that reflects the time school superintendents interact with several sets of significant actors in the environment We find that network management is not only related to overall organizationalit has positive impacts even in the presence of a lagged dependent variable Further, management appears to interact with other organizational resources in a nonlinear manner to further augment organizational performance Although public school networks are not as complicated or as populated as those of many other public organizations, the findings suggest how management might matter in these other networks

Managerial Strategies and Behavior in Networks: A Model with Evidence from U.S. Public Education *

Current changes in governing tasks that face the political systems in liberal democracies require governance to be performed in new ways. Governance can no longer take the form of sovereign rule bu...

Metagovernance The Changing Role of Politicians in Processes of Democratic Governance

. This introduction seeks to sketch out the relationship between a variety of terms that are used in contemporary discussion of the interaction between Government/State and interest groups. It starts with a short reflection on the main theories of interest intermediation — pluralism and corporatism — and argues for reserving the term policy network as a generic label embracing different types of network relationship. This piece thus attempts to record the variety of labels currently used to describe state/interest relations, to show the overlap between certain of these labels, and how they relate one to the other. The existing confusion of labels signal a greater variety than they deliver.

Klaus Schubert

Papers

A preliminary ordering of policy network labels

The handbook of European welfare systems

Lehrbuch der Politikfeldanalyse

Netzwerke und Politikproduktion : Konzepte, Methoden, Perspektiven

Ökonomische Theorien der Politik