Policy Implementation in Federal and Unitary Systems

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Analytical Models and Institutional Design in Federal and Unitary States, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 26-30, 1983

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Multiorganizational Arrangements in the Governance of Unitary and Federal Political Systems.- Beyond Organizational Design: Contextuality and the Political Theory of Public Policy.- Comment on Wittrock: Creative Imagination and Appropriate Assemblies.- Forward and Backward Mapping: Reversible Logic in the Analysis of Public Policy.- Policy Subsystems as a Unit of Analysis in Implementation Studies: A Struggle for Theoretical Synthesis.- Comment on Warns ley: The Unit of Analysis as a Methodological Problem.- Policy Subsystems, Networks and the Tools of Public Management.- Small Firm Employment Creation: An Assistance Structure Explanation.- Comment on Hjern and Hull: Implementation Structures and the Importance of Local Actors.- Metropolitan Structure and Systemic Performance: The Case of Police Service Delivery.- Comment on Parks: Fragmented Policy Organizations: A Comment.- Diffusion of Responsibility: An Interorganizational Analysis.- Comment on O'Toole: The Structural Context of Responsibility.- Racial Inequalities in Low-Income Central City and Suburban Communities: The Case of Police Services.- Social Structure and Social Praxis in Interorganizational Policy Analysis.- Comments on Benson and Weitzel: Interorganizational Analysis: A Field for Social Praxis Based On Social Structure, or Strategic Choice and Reticulist Judgement?.- Reflections on Bridge-Building in Complex Terrains: A Postscript.- Strategic Interaction, Learning and Policy Evolution: A Synthetic Hodel.- Implementation Research and Institutional Design: The Quest for Structure.