Effective Implementation In Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management

Preface

This book is fundamentally about change. Policy and program implementation requires changing systems and organizations, changing the hearts and minds of both people who work within them and those who are served by them. And there is a lot already written about change. In the early twenty-first century, we are fascinated by it. Popular social commentators' blogs and books help us make sense of the massive societal, environmental, and economic changes occurring around the world. Management gurus provide accounts of organizational change, models to describe it, and ideas for engaging those resistant to it. Self-help books and podcasts describe individual change in spirituality, family dynamics, exercise regimes, and nutrition, providing ...