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Policy Recommendations for Multi-Actor Implementation: An Assessment of the Field *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Laurence J O'Toole Jr
Laurence J O'Toole Jr
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Political Science, Auburn University
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Abstract

One goal frequently professed in the research field of multi-actor implementation is to assist those actually involved in the policy process by developing good, empirically-based recommendations. The primary objectives in this article are to investigate the degree of progress attained thus far toward this aim and, as a consequence, to suggest an agenda for future research. The literature is found to impose a number of restrictions on the quality of advice available to practitioners. The field is complex, without much cumulation or convergence. Few well-developed recommendations have been put forward by researchers and a number of proposals are contradictory. Almost no evidence or analysis of utilization in this field has been produced. Two reasons for the lack of development are analyzed: normative disagreement and the state of the field's empirical theory. Yet there remain numerous possibilities for increasing the quality of the latter. Efforts in this direction are a necessary condition of further practical advance.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 181 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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