Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Introduction
Contents
Some matters of definition

2 Positioning Implementation Studies

Introduction
Concerns about implementation: historical origins
The rule of law
The implications of the idea of democracy
Institutional theory
Postrnodernist theory
Conclusions
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3 Implementation Theory:
The Top-dowdBottom-up Debate
The discovery of the 'missing link'
The classical top-down writers
The bottom-up challenge
Conclusions

4 Implementation Theory: The Synthesizers

Introduction
Key contributions
Conclusions

5 The Rise and Decline of the Policy-Implementation

Paradigm
Introduction
The first phase
Distance in prosperity
Pragmatism in the new millennium
Evaluation
The future of implementation studies