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Teaching Implementation Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2015
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Before entering the teaching profession, I served as the administrator of an environmental agency, a lobbyist, and a policy advisor in the state of Pennsylvania. These experiences made me aware of the need for practical suggestions on how to improve bureaucratic effectiveness and measure organizational success. My research interests focus on developing quantitative measures of implementation efforts and applying these measures to administrative agencies. I believe this approach to studying administration will become increasingly important in the future because it concentrates on measuring productivity and can be adapted to the private as well as the public sector.
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1. Methods of teaching the remaining two components are discussed in my article, “Teaching Computerized Data Analysis to Students in Introductory Level Political Science Courses,” NEWS for Teachers of Political Science, 48 (Winter 1986), 14–16Google Scholar.
2. Although many texts are suitable, I use Johnson, Janet and Joslyn, Richard, Political Science Research Methods (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1986)Google Scholar.
3. Graduate students are assigned chapters three, four, and five in Hoover's, Kenneth R.The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking, 4th ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988)Google Scholar.
4. Bobrow, Davis B. and Dryzek's, John S.Policy Analysis by Design (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987)Google Scholar provides an excellent background on the epistemologies, approaches, and pitfalls of methodologies used in public policy analysis.
5. A summary of the status of implementation research, which contains examples of numerous models, can be found in Lester, James, Bowman, Ann, Goggin, Malcolm, and O'Toole's, Laurence “Public Policy Implementation: Evolution of the Field and Agenda for Future Research,” Policy Studies Review, 6 (August 1987), 0-000Google Scholar.
6. I have modified the definition of one of the categories suggested by Hood, Christopher in The Tools of Government (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1986).Google Scholar I consider organization as staffing attributes while Hood uses the term to represent agency capabilities.
7. My article, “Assessing the Role of Federal Administrative Regions: An Exploratory Analysis,” Public Administration Review, 48 (March/April 1988), 0-000Google Scholar, applies Hood's framework to the Environmental Protection Agency and uses single indicators for each component of the model.
8. Students who wish a more rigorous explanation of modeling are referred to Isaak, Alan C., Scope and Methods of Political Science, 4th ed. (Homewood, IL: Dorsey, 1984)Google Scholar.