Contents

Preface
Barbara B. Blum

1 Implementation Studies: From Policy to Action
Thomas Corbett and Mary Clare Lennon

Part One: Understanding the Implementation Challenge

2 Perspectives of the Ultimate Consumers: Policymakers and Program Managers
Joel Rabb and Don Winstead

3 Conceptual Underpinnings of Implementation Analysis
Pamela A. Holcomb and Demetra Smith Nightingale

4 Three Generations of Implementation Research: Looking for the Keys to Implementation "Success"
Thomas Kaplan and Thomas Corbett

Part Two: Using Analysis to Understand Implementation

5 Field Network Studies
Irene Lurie

6 Performance Analysis
Lawrence M. Mead

7 Street-Level Research: Policy at the Front Lines
Evelyn Z. Brodkin

8 Client-Based Ethnographic Research As a Tool for Implementation Analysis
Kathryn Edin

9 What Lies behind the Impacts? Implementation Research in the Context of Net Impact Studies
Kay E. Sherwood and Fred Doolittle

Part Three: Using Data to Understand Implementation

10 Approaches to Data Collection for Implementation Analysis
Leanne Charlesworth and Catherine Born

11 Use of Administrative Data for Implementation Research
Robert M. Goerge

Part Four: Pursuing Excellence

12 Where We Go from Here
Rebecca A. Maynard and Thomas Corbett

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index

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