Implementing Sure Start Policy
Context, Networks and Discretion
Authors: Song, Xiongwei
Free Preview- Equips readers to understand how the Sure Start policy is implemented in the UK
- Interprets the evolving pattern of Governance in the UK since 1997
- Provides a global perspective on the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the implementation of certain approaches to public policy
- Proposes a total rethinking of how policy implementation can be reformed and restructured
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- About this book
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In 1997, the Labour Government came to power in the UK and committed to reforming public service delivery, particularly towards the improvement of children’s services. This book analyses Labour Party’s subsequent strategy towards public service delivery emphasising, on one level, devolving more power to frontline deliverers, while on the other, strengthening central control through a variety of means, leading to a ‘mixed-approach’ in its overall reforms. The book focuses on the implementation process involved in rolling out its Sure Start policy in order to understand and analyse the dynamics in Labour’s approach to delivery. In so-doing, it draws on implementation and policy network theories to offer an original analytical framework - ‘the implementation network approach’ - to explain the implementation process of Sure Start policy. This book will be undoubtedly appealing to the students and scholars engaged in the fields of Public Policy and British Politics.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Research Agenda, Analytical Framework and Methodology
Pages 1-16
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Governance and Public Service Delivery Under the Labour Government
Pages 17-43
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New Welfare State and Sure Start Policy
Pages 45-77
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Implementation Network Approach: A New Theoretical Framework
Pages 79-113
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Types of Networks and the Interactive Processes at the Meso-level
Pages 115-154
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Implementing Sure Start Policy
- Book Subtitle
- Context, Networks and Discretion
- Authors
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- Xiongwei Song
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-10-1795-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-10-1795-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-10-1794-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-3822-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 247
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
- Topics
