eprintid: 4532 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/45/32 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:08 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:17 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:08 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Najam, A. creators_id: AL1031 title: Learning from the Literature on Policy Implementation: A Synthesis Perspective ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_env internal_subjects: iis_neg divisions: prog_iec abstract: Virtually all international environmental commitments must be "domesticated" -- transformed into domestic rules before they can affect the individuals, firms and organizations that international environmental agreements ultimately aim to influence. The domestication of international commitments is a relatively new topic, but scholars will learn much from the extensive studies conducted over the last three decades on implementation of domestic policies and programs. In this paper, the author reviews the main works, trends and concepts in the policy implementation literature. He also reviews the distinct literature on policy implementation in developing countries. Finally, he synthesizes the reviewed literature into five clusters of critical variables that explain success and failure in policy implementation. That 5C protocol is an organizing framework for conducting and assessing research into policy implementation, including implementation of international environmental commitments. date: 1995-07 date_type: published publisher: WP-95-061 iiasapubid: WP-95-061 price: 12 creators_browse_id: 2220 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 77 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Najam, A. (1995). Learning from the Literature on Policy Implementation: A Synthesis Perspective. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-061 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4532/1/WP-95-061.pdf