- Part I - Implementation and policy design 1. Opening up the black box: implementation and the policy process - Dennis J. Palumbo e Donald J. Calista 2. Integrating implementation research - Soren Winter 3. When failure is success: implementation and madisonian government - Barbara Ferman 4. Research perspectives on the desing of public policy: implementation, formulation, and design - Stephen H. Linder e B. Guy Peters 5. The Japan external trade organization and import promotion: a case study in the implementation of symbolic policy goals - Robert T. Nakamura - Part II - Implementation politics and the organizational context 6. Implementation and managerial creativity: a study of the development of client-centered units in human service programs - Glenn W. Rainey, Jr. 7. Implementation as policy politics - Evelyn Z. Brodkin 8. Female executives in public and private universities: differences in implementation styles - Bryna Sanger e Martin A. Levin 9. Policy implementation and the responsible exercise of discretion - John P. Burke 10. Acquisition: the missing link in the implementation of technology - Carl P. Carlucci - Part III - Epistemology, methodology, and implementation 11. Studying micro-implementation empirically: lessons and dilemmas - Mary Ann Scheirer e James Griffith 12. Studying the dynamics of public policy implementation: a third-generation approach - Malcolm L. Goggin, Ann O'M. Bowman, James P. Lester e Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr. 13. Implementation research: Why and how to transcend positivist methodologies - Charles J. Fox 14. Tackling the implementation problem: epistemological issues in implementation research - Dvora Yanow