Implementing Sure Start Policy Context, Networks and Discretion /

• Main Author: Song, Xiongwei (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political sociology.; Political Theory.; Political Sociology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Theoretical Framework
• Chapter 1: Analytical Framework and Structure of the Book
• Chapter 2: Governance and Public Service Delivery Under the Labour Government
• Chapter 3: Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches: Strengths and Weaknesses.-Chapter 4: Policy Network Theory: A Synthetic Possibility
• Chapter 5: Implementation Network Approach: A New Framework for Policy Implementation
• Part 2: Practice and Analysis
• Chapter 6: Sure Start Policy: Contexts and Its Contents
• Chapter 7: Types of Networks and Interactive Process at the Meso-level
• Chapter 8: Street-level Bureaucrats in Sure Start policy and their Discretion
• Chapter 9: Context, Structure-Agency and Outcomes
• Chapter 10: Policy Implementation of Sure Start: Lessons and Implications.