Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World eBook

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Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.

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Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World is written by Luke Fowler and published by Suny Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World are 9781438493602, 1438493606 and the print ISBNs are 9781438493596, 1438493592. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781438493589.