Policy Into Action Implementation Research and Welfare Reform

by Lennon, Mary Clare; Corbett, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780877667148
• ISBN10: 0877667144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Barbara B. Blum
Implementation Studies: From Policy to Action	1	(14)
Thomas Corbett and Mary Clare Lennon
PART ONE: Understanding the Implementation Challenge	15	(58)
2 Perspectives of the Ultimate Consumers: Policymakers and Program Managers	21	(18)
Joel Rabb and Don Winstead
3 Conceptual Underpinnings of Implementation Analysis	39	(18)
Pamela A. Holcomb and Demetra Smith Nightingale
4 Three Generations of Implementation Research: Looking for the Keys to Implementation "Success"	57	(16)
Thomas Kaplan and Thomas Corbett
PART TWO: Using Analysis to Understand Implementation	73	(160)
5 Field Network Studies	81	(26)
Irene Lune
6 Performance Analysis	107	(38)
Lawrence M. Mead
7 Street-Level Research: Policy at the Front Lines	145	(20)
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
8 Client-Based Ethnographic Research As a Tool for Implementation Analysis	165	(28)
Kathryn Edin
9 What Lies behind the Impacts? Implementation Research in the Context of Net Impact Studies	193	(40)
Kay E. Sherwood and Fred Doolittle
PART THREE: Using Data to Understand Implementation	233	(66)
10 Approaches to Data Collection for Implementation Analysis	239	(42)
Leanne Charlesworth and Catherine Born
11 Use of Administrative Data for Implementation Research	281	(18)
Robert M. Goerge
PART FOUR: Pursuing Excellence	299	(22)
12 Where We Go from Here	303	(18)
Rebecca A. Maynard and Thomas Corbett
About the Editors	321	(2)
About the Contributors	323	(4)
Index	327