Policy into action: implementation research and welfare reform

Implementation studies: from policy to action / Thomas Corbett, Mary Clare Lennon

PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGE

Perspectives of the ultimate consumers: policy makers and program managers / Joel Rabb, Don Winstead

Conceptual underpinnings of implementation analysis / Pamela A. Holcomb, Demetra Smith Nightingale

Three generations of implementation research: looking for the keys to implementation "success" / Thomas Kaplan, Thomas Corbett

PART II: USING ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND IMPLEMENTATION

Field network studies / Irene Lurie

Performance analysis / Lawrence M. Mead

Street-level research: policy at the front lines / Evelyn Z. Brodkin

Client-based ethnographic research as a tool for implementation analysis / Kathryn Edin

What lies behind the impacts? implementation research in the context of net impact studies / Kay E. Sherwood, Fred Doolittle

PART III: USING DATA TO UNDERSTAND IMPLEMENTATION

Approaches to data collection for implementation analysis / Leanne Charlesworth, Catherine Born

Use of administrative data for implementation research / Robert M. Goerge

PART IV: PURSUING EXCELLENCE

Where we go from here / Rebecca Maynard, Thomas Corbett.