Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Implementation studies: from policy to action / Thomas Corbett and Mary Clare Lennon -- Part I -- 2 Perspectives of the ultimate consumers: policy makers and program managers / Joel Rabb and Don Winstead -- 3 Conceptual underpinnings of implementation analysis / Pamela A. Holcomb and Demetra Smith Nightingale -- 4 Three generations of implementation research: looking for the keys to implementation "success" / Thomas Kaplan and Thomas Corbett -- Part II -- 5 Field network studies / Irene Lurie -- 6 Performance analysis / Lawrence M. Mead -- 7 Street-level research: policy at the front lines / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- 8 Client-based ethnographic research as a tool for implementation analysis / Kathryn Edin -- 9 What lies behind the impacts? implementation research in the context of net impact studies / Kay E. Sherwood and Fred Doolittle -- Part III -- 10 Approaches to data collection for implementation analysis / Leanne Charlesworth and Catherine Born -- 11 Use of administrative data for implementation research / Robert M. Goerge -- Part IV -- 12 Where we go from here / Rebecca Maynard and Thomas Corbett.