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Conditions of Effective Implementation: SABATIER & MAZMANIAN

Conditions of Effective Implementation: SABATIER & MAZMANIAN. Program is based on sound theory. The statute contains clear policy directives. Leaders possess substantial managerial and political skill. Program is actively supported by constituent groups.

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Conditions of Effective Implementation: SABATIER & MAZMANIAN

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  1. Conditions of Effective Implementation:SABATIER & MAZMANIAN • Program is based on sound theory. • The statute contains clear policy directives. • Leaders possess substantial managerial and political skill. • Program is actively supported by constituent groups. • Relative priority of statutory objectives is not undermined.

  2. Institutional Paradoxes: Myers and Dillon • Policy makers fail to align the actions of street level bureaucrats with their goals. • The structure of a welfare workers job or his or her understanding of the program mission create incentives for maintaining instrumental behavior and disincentives for reform. • The paradox: The welfare bureaucracy makes it impossible for workers to cooperate with the intent of the reform effort.

  3. Structural factors: rules, procedures, incentive structures Organizing pressures: clients Workers’ Instrumental responses: standardization/routini-zation Inspiration/leadership lacking Focus on process Focus on rewarded behavior Narrow and technical understanding of agency mission. Organizational Factors Impeding Implementation

  4. Lessons from Administrative Reform in FloridaBerry et al. • Reformers tend to use popular writing without determining their applicability • Advocates tend to over-promise results for political support in campaign process • Under fiscal restraints, reforms w/ low implementation cost and uncertain benefits are favored over high cost/ high benefit reforms. • When reforms deliver less than promised, they lose support and are seen as failures • Sustained leadership for reform w/in an agency is critical as time extends and support erodes.

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