Public Policy Implementation and Public Organizations Management: One Problem, Two Ontologies
- Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025
- Final Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
This special issue aims to combine two strands of literature that have evolved separately yet converge upon state action: policy implementation and public management. We see policy implementation literature as the part of policy analysis that, drawing mostly from political science, focuses on what happens in the realization phase of policies. We regard public management as the part of public administration that focuses on the design and organizational aspects of policies as purposeful artifacts. Although both fields are unquestionable children of 20th-century policy sciences, they grew in the distinct environments provided by science and professional practice.
Our special issue aims to delve further into these developments and to provide a platform for the best work from both traditions to enter a new phase of exchanges. While Implementation Studies and Public Management define their focus differently and use different analytical tools, they can ultimately produce a common body of knowledge. This project originated from the International Public Policy Association (IPPA) Workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2024. We are taking this opportunity, with the launch of a Call for Papers, to engage in a second round of productive discussions aimed at finalizing a special issue for your journal, “Public Policy & Administration.”
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