Author: Jeffrey L. PressmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Implementation: how Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland
Author: Jeffrey L. PressmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Implementation
Author: Jeffrey L. PressmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520053311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book confronts the widespread impression that policy or program implementation should be easy, arguing instead that implementation, even under the best of circumstances, is exceedingly difficult. Using the Oakland Project as a case study, this book discusses each stage of the process of implementation, demonstrating that completion of what might seem to be a simple sequence of events will in fact depend on a complex chain of reciprocal interactions. Each part of the chain must be built with the others in view, so the separation of policy design from implementation is fatal. The first four chapters illustrate the movement from simplicity to complexity. Chapter 5 discusses the number of decision points throughout the process, giving an indication of the magnitude of the task. Chapter 6 examines why project targets may be set even if they are unlikely to be met, considering both the position of those who set targets -- top federal officials who wish large accomplishments from small resources in a short time -- and those who must implement them -- career bureaucrats and local participants characterized by high needs and low cohesion. The last chapter discusses the relationship between the evaluation of programs and the study of their implementation, arguing that tendencies to assimilate the two should be resisted.
Implementation
Author: Jeffrey L. PressmanPivotal Politics
Author: Keith KrehbielPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226452735
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Politicians and pundits alike have complained that the divided governments of the last decades have led to legislative gridlock. Not so, argues Keith Krehbiel, who advances the provocative theory that divided government actually has little effect on legislative productivity. Gridlock is in fact the order of the day, occurring even when the same party controls the legislative and executive branches. Meticulously researched and anchored to real politics, Krehbiel argues that the pivotal vote on a piece of legislation is not the one that gives a bill a simple majority, but the vote that allows its supporters to override a possible presidential veto or to put a halt to a filibuster. This theory of pivots also explains why, when bills are passed, winning coalitions usually are bipartisan and supermajority sized. Offering an incisive account of when gridlock is overcome and showing that political parties are less important in legislative-executive politics than previously thought, Pivotal Politics remakes our understanding of American lawmaking.
Implementation
Author: Jeffrey L. PressmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Implementation and Public Policy
Author: Daniel A. MazmanianPublisher:
ISBN: 9780819175267
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains an introduction to policy implementation, a framework for implementation analysis and several case studies from the United States.
Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century
Author: J. Michael MartinezPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States. Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century lays the ethical foundations for a uniform professional code of ethics for public administrators, civil servants, and non-profit administrators in the US. Martinez synthesizes five disparate schools of ethical thought as to how public administrators can come to know the good and behave in ways that advance the values of citizenship, equity, and public interest within their respective organizations. Using case studies, he teaches American administrators how to combine the approaches of all five schools to evaluate and resolve complex ethical dilemmas within the constraints of the U.S. democratic values set. Martinez enunciates the common ethical principles that guide public administrators in their practice within the specific ethical parameters and organizational cultures of a myriad entities at the federal, state, and local levels of government in the United States, as well as in non-profit organizations. Along the way, Martinez addresses a number of crucial issues, including personal gain, conflict of interest, transparency, democratic impartiality, hiring, hierarchical discipline, media relations, partisan pressure, appointments by elected officials, and whistle-blowing. The striking, high-profile case studies—Nathan Bedford Forrest, Adolph Eichmann, Lieutenant William Calley, and Mary Ann Wright—illustrate ethical dilemmas where, for better or worse, the individual was at odds with the organization.
The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration
Author: Vincent OstromPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817304185
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom's analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
The Implementation Game
Author: Eugene BardachPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"Combining scholarly analysis with practical recommendation, The Implementation Game shows how a program can be blocked after it has passed from bill to law. Bardach, who worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of the Interior and who is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, reveals the strategies employed by bureaucratic to impede enactment of new laws. He explains how the policy implementation process works and how planners and concerned citizens can identify such bureaucratic maneuvers as "Not Our Problem" and "Territory" -with examples of twenty such plays from real-life situations. The Implementation Game is a useful handbook for policy planners and a basic reference for students of American political institutions who want to anticipate implementation problems at the early stages and who can use Bardach's "implementation scenarios" to design against these problems for more game-proof legislation" -- Back cover.
Bureaucracy
Author: James Q. WilsonPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541646258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist) In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they operate the way they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. It is the essential guide to understanding how American government works.