City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater By-law: Barriers to Implementation
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2012
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Climate Change in the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town
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Earthscan, London
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University of Cape Town
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The study of implementation has had tremendous importance for the study of policy. It opened up the black box of ‘after-a-formal-decision’ politics and demonstrated, among other things, that the political process continues all the way through to the final output of the policy process (Bardach 1977). It addressed the complexity of achieving policy goals, offered new insights into the importance of lower-level actors in policy, and attended to the effects that clients and extra-government groups had on the policy result (Schofield 2001). It became one of the most important sources for the development of new perspectives that tried to capture how policy processes cross the public-private divide, as evidenced by the new focus on governance (Rhodes 1997) or networks (Marin and Mayntz 1991). Implementation research has been particularly valuable in two somewhat contradictory ways.
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Froestad, J., Shearing, C., Herbstein, T., & Grimwood, S. (2012). City of Cape Town solar water heater bylaw: Barriers to implementation. In: Cartwright, A., Parnell, S., Oelofse, G. & Ward, S. Eds. Climate Change in the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town. London: Earthscan, 244-262.