dc.contributor.author | Thomann, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Lieberherr, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Ingold, K | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-25T08:36:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | Policy implementation by private actors constitutes a “missing link” for understanding the implications of private governance. This paper proposes and assesses an institutional logics framework that combines a top-down, policy design approach with a bottom-up, implementation perspective on discretion. We argue that the conflicting institutional logics of the state and the market, in combination with differing degrees of goal ambiguity, accountability and hybridity play a crucial role for output performance. These arguments are analyzed based on a secondary analysis of seven case studies of private and hybrid policy implementation in diverging contexts. We find that aligning private output performance with public interests is at least partly a question of policy design congruence: private implementing actors tend to perform deficiently when the conflicting logics of the state and the market combine with weak accountability mechanisms. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 35, Iss. 1, pp. 57 - 69 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29503 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.subject | policy implementation | en_GB |
dc.subject | private governance | en_GB |
dc.subject | institutional logics | en_GB |
dc.subject | output performance | en_GB |
dc.subject | accountability | en_GB |
dc.subject | privatization | en_GB |
dc.title | Torn between state and market: Private policy implementation and conflicting institutional logics | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-25T08:36:04Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1449-4035 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Policy and Society | en_GB |