POL S 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Independent Business, Hobby Lobby, Organisational Routines
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Design factors - policy as enacted o o o o o. Implementing agency strategies - implementation outcomes o. Implementation of a given policy rarely occurs in a vacuum o o. Sometimes multiple policies are being implemented in the same venue. But new policies are layered on earlier ones. Complexity of joint action complicates implementation o. Requires a variety of activities by actors at different levels of the governmental and non- governmental systems o. Entails cooperation from people who each have their own goals, interests and perspectives. Knowing that a policy has been implemented means that legislation has been translated into organizational routines that have been institutionalized o. But id does not necessarily mean the policy has produced its intended effects: difference between policy outputs and policy outcomes. Implementation involves both an administrative and a political process: a policy"s political sustainability has to be maintained as organizational routines are changed. The ehb, contraception for women and the hobby lobby case o.
