IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cposxx/v22y2001i3-4p149-166.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

'They just don't live and breathe the policy like we do…': Policy Intentions and Practice Dilemmas in Modern Social Policy and Implementation Networks

Author

Listed:
  • Chris Allen

Abstract

This paper examines how social policy institutions, such as Scottish Homes, the national housing agency in Scotland, pursue their policy goals in an environment that is increasingly requiring them to consider how these policies are joined up with other social policy institutions' aims and objectives. It also examines how actors within multi-organizational implementation networks interpret and act upon Scottish Homes' policy guidance, especially when it conflicts with other social policy goals that they are also required to pursue. In doing this, the paper aims to enhance our understanding of the complexity of what is going on in increasingly 'joined-up' social policy and implementation networks, as much as it aims to suggest how the efficiency of what goes on therein can be improved.

Suggested Citation

  • Chris Allen, 2001. "'They just don't live and breathe the policy like we do…': Policy Intentions and Practice Dilemmas in Modern Social Policy and Implementation Networks," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(3-4), pages 149-166.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:22:y:2001:i:3-4:p:149-166
    DOI: 10.1080/01442870120112665
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01442870120112665
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01442870120112665?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:22:y:2001:i:3-4:p:149-166. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cpos .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.