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Implementing Sure Start Policy

Context, Networks and Discretion

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Authors:
  1. Xiongwei Song

    1. Chinese Academy of Governance, Haidian, Beijing, China

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  • Equips readers to understand how the Sure Start policy is implemented in the UK
  • Interprets the evolving pattern of Governance in the UK since 1997
  • Provides a global perspective on the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the implementation of certain approaches to public policy
  • Proposes a total rethinking of how policy implementation can be reformed and restructured

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Research Agenda, Analytical Framework and Methodology

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 1-16

  3. Governance and Public Service Delivery Under the Labour Government

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 17-43

  4. New Welfare State and Sure Start Policy

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 45-77

  5. Implementation Network Approach: A New Theoretical Framework

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 79-113

  6. Types of Networks and the Interactive Processes at the Meso-level

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 115-154

  7. Discretion of Street-Level Bureaucrats and Sure Start Implementation

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 155-183

  8. Context, Structure and Agency, Outcomes

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 185-210

  9. Theoretical Contribution and Core Research Findings

    • Xiongwei Song
    Pages 211-226

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 227-247
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About this book

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 more power to frontline deliverers, while on the other, strengthening central control through a variety of means, leading to a ‘mixed-approach’ in its overall reforms. The book focuses on the implementation process involved in rolling out its Sure Start policy in order to understand and analyse the dynamics in Labour’s approach to delivery. In so-doing, it draws on implementation and policy network theories to offer an original analytical framework - ‘the implementation network approach’ - to explain the implementation process of Sure Start policy. This book will be undoubtedly appealing to the students and scholars engaged in the fields of Public Policy and British Politics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Chinese Academy of Governance, Haidian, Beijing, China

    Xiongwei Song

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Implementing Sure Start Policy

  • Book Subtitle: Context, Networks and Discretion

  • Authors: Xiongwei Song

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1795-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1794-0Published: 06 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3822-9Published: 01 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1795-7Published: 23 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Theory, Political Sociology

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