Summary
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Subject index
This major international handbook provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry. Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the world, it comprehensively explores the current state of the art in academic thinking and the current structures and processes for the administration of public policy following this period of rapid transformation and change.
Implementation
Introduction
Implementation research grew out of evaluation research. The Great Society policy reforms in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s stimulated a lot of evaluation research in order to estimate the effects of the new welfare state programs and to suggest improvements. Classic evaluation analyses raised the question whether it could be documented that a given policy intervention had any effect, and if so what effect. However, evaluation analysts often became frustrated that most studies actually showed little or no effect (Albæk, 1988). The classic interpretation of such findings was that the program did not work; it was based on a wrong causal theory. However, gradually the apparent failures stimulated another interpretation that maybe nothing was wrong with the causal theory behind the ...
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