Torn between state and market : private policy implementation and conflicting institutional logics

Thomann, Eva ; Lieberherr, Eva ; Ingold, Karin

DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.12.001
URL:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Additional URL:	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291950207...
Document Type:	Article
Year of publication:	2016
The title of a journal, publication series:	Policy and Society
Volume:	35
Issue number:	1
Page range:	57-69
Place of publication:	Amsterdam [u.a.]
Publishing house:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1449-4035
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department B
Subject:	320 Political science
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 analysed 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.

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Thomann, Eva ; Lieberherr, Eva ; Ingold, Karin (2016) Torn between state and market : private policy implementation and conflicting institutional logics. Policy and Society Amsterdam [u.a.] 35 1 57-69 [Article]

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