policy implementation failure

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this is a graduate studies course on public policy. The activities associated with this reading assignment was on street-level bureaucrats. I have attached the resources needed to complete the assignment. 1. Read the introduction and the four sections on mechanical, organic, cultural and political models of policy implementation available at Open University Policy-Action Relationship link or in the Word document format (provided in this module). 2. Read Hill and Hupe textbook chapter 2 (you should have read chapter 1 for the street-level bureaucrat discussion). Hill, Michael and Peter Hupe (2009) Implementing Public Policy. Second edition. Sage. ISBN 978-0-4129-4799-2 pbk 3. Read “Additional Resources on the Relationship Between Policy Formation and its Implementation.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTSS4UhCnXc http://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/The%20Nature%20of%20Policy%20Change%20and%20Implementation.pdf Please follow these guidelines in preparing your journal: I would prefer that you combine all readings into one journal as opposed to creating a different journal for each reading. In fact, ideally, you should integrate your treatment of the several sources in the manner you would if you were conducting a literature review. Provide a summary of your reading (see instructions below). Provide your reactions to the reading (see instructions below) and please make sure that you distinguish your reaction from the reading summary. Use an outline format for the summary, if you like. a summary of your reading assignment. The summary should include the key points in the reading or in your activities. A summary, to be useful, should not be too long. If the summary contains too many words, it may not be very valuable to you either in the process of identifying key elements in your reading or activities or in later reviews of the journal. On the other hand, the summary should not be so short that it is meaningless when you read it the next day or the next month. Obviously, style enters the picture here and your summary, in terms of length, will be different from the summaries of others. 2. your thoughts about and reactions to the reading. The reaction may involve: a question that you have about the material or activities you have summarized (the simple process of writing a question you have will help to answer that question – although the answer may not come right away); doubts which you have about the validity of an author’s point-of-view and the reasons for your doubts; an insight which you have about the reading; an observation about a point or theory that you think is particularly useful; an application of the reading to some real world event or to the activities in which you are currently engaged, an article you have read, a movie you have seen. Most importantly, what do the readings mean to you as a professional. Of course, you cannot possibly react to everything. When a reaction occurs to you write it down and include it in your journal.