Implmentation Course Outline 1

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Spring 2017 Jeffrey Prottas

Goals: To provide students with an intellectual framework for conducting research into the implementation of public policy. This involves introducing several models of how implementation can be studied, what analytical judgements must be made about level of analysis and what are the key variables in such analysis.

Structure of the Course: The course is divided into three parts. The first briefly deals with the historical/culture background of public action in the US. The second examines the institutions and actors whose behavior sets the context and parameters of implementation. The third section, the longest, treats theoretical and analytical issues in implementation.

Assignments and Feedback There will be two papers assigned. One will be due at the end of the course and the other at the end of the week of Febuary 26 . The first will be 7-10 pages in length and the second 10 –15. I can expect well thought out analytical thinking in the papers. You can expect comments and feedback.

Students are invited, even expected, to participate in class discussion and can expect feedback in class from classmates and from me. Students are also invited to make appointments with me to discuss the course and/or their involvement in it at any time.

List of Required Books Martha Derthick, Agency Under Stress, J.Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy R. Shep Melnick, Between the Lines G. Allision, Essence of Decision J. Pressman and A. Wildavsky, Implementation

The Latte site also contains a reading package.

1 POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Spring 2017 Jeffrey Prottas

Historical and Cultural Context

1/22 Introduction: Where we are going and not going

Readings:

Corbett and Lennon, (2003). “Implementation Studies: From Policy to Action Policy.” Policy Into Action: Implementation Research and Welfare Reform, Urban Institute Press. 1-13

Morone, “Big Ideas , Broken Institutions and the Wrath of the Grassroots”

1/29 American Liberalism and Uniqueness?

Readings

Federalist Papers Numbers: 37, 47, 51

John Locke. Second Treatise on Government Chapter II-V, VIII-XII

Luis Hartz , Liberal Tradition in America Chapters 1,2

Rogers Smith, “Beyond Toc Queville, Myrdal and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America” APSR Vol. 87:3, Sept 1993:549-564

2 Institutions as Reification and Bias

2/5 The Role of Executive and Leadership

Readings

MacGregor Burns, Leadership Chapter 11 (287-303 only), Chapter 14, (369-385)

Hugh Heclo, “One Branch or Many” In Anthony King, ed., Both Ends of the Avenue

Derthick, Chapters 3, 6

2/12 Legislation and Interest Groups

Readings:

Federalist Papers Number: 10

Martha Derthick, Agency Under Stress, Chapters 4, 8.

J.Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy, Chapters, 5, 13

2/19 States and Federalism (90 minutes)

Readings:

Henry Turner, American Democracy: State and Local Government, Chapter 5. “State and Local Functions and Services”

Timothy Conlan, From Federalism to Devolution, Chapter 1, “Federalism reform and the Modern State”

Federalist Papers Number 45

3 Courts ( 90 minutes)

Readings

J.Q. Wilson Bureaucracy chapter 15

R. Shep Melnick, Between The Lines Chapter 1, 11, 12

Federalist Papers Numbers: 78

2/26 Where it all started: Classic Theory of Bureaucracy

Readings:

Max Weber, Essays in Sociology Part VII: Bureaucracy pp. 196-233

Woodrow Wilson, “The Study of Administration” Political Science Quarterly, June 1887:18-23

J.Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy Chapters 3,4,6, 7.

Crozier, Bureaucratic Phenomenon pp. 213-224, and pp. 251-255

Process of Analysis: Focus, Variables and Heuristic Theories

3/5 Level of Analysis or where you look is what you see

Readings G. Allision, Essence of Decision

3/12 The connection between what programs do and how they do it

James Q. Wilson, Chapter 9 Compliance (158-171)

Richard Matland, Synthesizing the Implementation Literature: The Ambiguity- Conflict Model of Policy Implementation”

4 3/26 Research when authority and power are aligned

Readings:

Mazmanian, D. and Sabatier, P, Implementation and Public Policy, Chapters 1 and 2

Hasenfeld and Brock, “Implementation of Social Policy Revisited”, Administration and Society, 22:4 Feb 1991, 451-479

Neal Ryan “ Unraveling Conceptual Developments in Implementation Analysis”, Australian Journal of Public Adminstration :54:1, March 1995:65-80

Corbett and Lennon, (2003). “Implementation Studies: From Policy to Action Policy.” Policy Into Action: Implementation Research and Welfare Reform, Urban Institute Press. 1-13

4/2 Research when power is a function of boundary control

R. Brodkin, “Street Level Research: Policy at the Front Lines.” Policy into Action. 145-164

M Lipsky, “Standing the Study of Public Policy Implementation on its Head”

J. Prottas, People Processing , Intro, Chapter 1, 5,6,7,11

Brodkin, E. “Investigating Policy’s Practical Meaning: Street-level Research on Welfare Policy

M Thrasher, D. Dunkerly “A Social Exchange Approach to Implementation Analysis” Social Science Information, :21:3 (1982) :349-382

Fledman, M., Rafaeli, A. “Organizational Routines as Sources of Connections and Understanding”, J. of Management Studies 39:3, May 2002

4/9 Implementation and Social Process

Readings:

M Thrasher, D. Dunkerly “A Social Exchange Approach to Implementation Analysis” Social Science Information, :21:3 (1982) :349-382

5 Fledman, M., Rafaeli, A. “Organizational Routines as Sources of Connections and Understanding”, J. of Management Studies 39:3, May 2002

Leana, C and Van Buren, H, “Organizational Social Capital and Employment Practices”, Academy of Management Review 24:3, 1999

Krackhardt, D. and Hanson, J., “ Informal Networks: The Company behind the charts”, Harvard Business Review,71:4, Jul/Aug 1993

4/16 Implementation as an Inter-Organizational Problem

Readings:

Sofaer, S., Myrtle, R. “Interorganizational Theory and Research: Implications for Health Care Management, Policy and Research” Medical Care Review 48:4 Winter 1991

Mitchell, S., Shortell, S. “The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A typology of Research, Policy and Practice” The Milbank Quarterly Vol 78, No 2, 2000

Breaux, D et al “Welfare Reform, “Mississippi Style: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Search for Accountability”, Public Administration Review Vol 61, No 1, 2002

Putting it All Together

4/19 (Thursday, Brandeis Monday)

Complexity of Joint Action

Readings: J. Pressman and A. Wildavsky, Implementation