Effective Implementation In Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management

Chapter SevenExploring Implementation in Practice

In part 2, we focused on describing what is taking place at each of the multiple levels of an implementation system. Within each level, there are multiple sites where people work together and shape what unfolds in the implementation process. And we described how the core program is often modified as it moves between and within these various settings and levels in the system. This descriptive analysis is important. It pragmatically helps describe who is doing what, and where, within an implementation system. But it does not assess what is expected nor reveal much about why activities unfold in these ways. Consequentially, it does not provide much insight into how one might intervene in these ...