<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper analyses the implementation of public management modernization policy between 1990 and 2013, applying the taxonomy by Hasenfeld and Brock (1991). Information analysed in this study comes from 67 interviews with actors who have played key roles in the implementation of modernization initiatives, as well as from official documents, and academic literature. The findings of the study suggest that taxonomy is useful in characterizing the organizational and inter-organizational behavioural patterns that influence policy implementation;also, that the prevalent driving forces help to understand the dynamic of implementation and what capacities, abilities and strategies are required to put into practice a concrete public policy, which appear to be linked to the context in which implementation takes place.</p></abstract>

This paper analyses the implementation of public management modernization policy between 1990 and 2013, applying the taxonomy by Hasenfeld and Brock (1991). Information analysed in this study comes from 67 interviews with actors who have played key roles in the implementation of modernization initiatives, as well as from official documents, and academic literature. The findings of the study suggest that taxonomy is useful in characterizing the organizational and inter-organizational behavioural patterns that influence policy implementation;also, that the prevalent driving forces help to understand the dynamic of implementation and what capacities, abilities and strategies are required to put into practice a concrete public policy, which appear to be linked to the context in which implementation takes place.

Policy Implementation: Lessons from the Chilean Policy on Public Management Modernization

Central European Journal of Public Policy

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This paper analyses the implementation of public management modernization policy between 1990 and 2013, applying the taxonomy by Hasenfeld and Brock (1991)....

Policy Implementation: Lessons from the Chilean Policy on Public Management Modernization

Publicado en línea: 16 jun 2017

Páginas: 41 - 54

Recibido: 09 feb 2016

Aceptado: 02 feb 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cejpp-2016-0030

Palabras clave
Chile, policy implementation, modernization of public management, policy reform, State modernization

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Policy Implementation: Lessons from the Chilean Policy on Public Management Modernization

Publicado en línea: 16 jun 2017

Páginas: 41 - 54

Recibido: 09 feb 2016

Aceptado: 02 feb 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cejpp-2016-0030

Palabras claveChile, policy implementation, modernization of public management, policy reform, State modernization

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Chile, policy implementation, modernization of public management, policy reform, State modernization