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1. Introduction -- Introduction -- Structure of the book -- Some matters of definition 2. Positioning implementation studies -- Introduction -- Concerns about implementation: historical origins -- The rules of law -- The idea of democracy and its implications -- Public administration and public management -- Institutional theory -- Postmodernist theory 3. The Top-Down/Bottom-UP debate -- The discovery of the 'missing link' -- The classical top-down authors -- The bottom-up challenge 4. Implementation theory -- Introduction -- The search for a synthesis -- Where does implementation begin? -- Layers in policy processes -- Networks: broadening the horizontal dimension -- Managing performance: redefining the vertical dimension -- Differentiating policy types -- Including responses of affected actors 5. Implementation and governance -- Introduction -- The age of interventionism -- The age of the market and corporate government -- The age of neo-interventionism -- Assessment 6. Implementation theory and the study of governance -- Introduction -- The stages model of the policy process -- Alternative analytical frameworks -- The multiple governance frameworks -- Studying implementation as governance research 7. Researching implementation -- Introduction -- Defining studies of implementation -- Explaining what needs explanation -- Isolating implementation -- Dealing with layers -- Specifying inter-organizational relationships -- Differentiating agency responses -- Identifying stakes -- Recognizing macro-parameters -- Quantitative versus qualitative studies 8. Implementation in context -- Introduction -- Implementation in practice -- The quest for appropriate action -- Policy settings -- Institutional environments -- Operational governance in context 9. The future of implementation studies -- Introduction -- The objectives of studying implementation -- The study of governance in operation -- Promising developments