The Choice Of Instruments In Policy Implementation

Master Kong had said:"A craftsman, if he means to do his work well, must first sharpen his tools."In the course of policymaking and implementation, policy objectives are"the work"what policy should do, meanwhile,policy instruments are"the tools"that are operated in policy implementation. After policymaking, choosing appropriate policy instruments will be the crucial factor that influences policy implementation effectively. The choice of instruments mainly exists in the process of policy implementation .We have attached great importance to the legitimate roles and functions of the implementing agencies in policy implementation, however, we had neglected a fact about the choice of instruments in order to achieve public objectives effectively. The key of policy implementation is choosing and devising the effective instruments. During the course of the policy implementation, choosing what kinds of policy instruments and how to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments will have decisive effects on policy achievements. Therefore, this thesis will study on policy implementation from view of the choice of instruments. The thesis is divided into the following aspects:In the first part, the author puts forward the issue on the choice of instruments in policy implementation. Then the author explains the significance of the study, and introduces the history and the present state of the study, the methods of the study and the main contents of the study in the thesis.In the second part, the author demonstrates the importance of the choice of instruments in policy implementation from view of the relationship between the policy instruments and the policy objectives.In the third part, the author analyzes the main factors that influence the choice of instruments by means of"The Policy Implementation Process Model".In the fourth part, the author constructs the active process of the choice of instruments in policy implementation by means of the basic methods of policy analysis and the general logic of public policy.In the fifth part, the author analyzes the choice of instruments in practice,taking the reform of Collectively Owned Forestry Tenure System in Pingxiang City of Jiangxi Province for example, the author researches into how to choose public policyinstruments from practical policy implementation process.At last, Concluding Remarks.The study on policy implementation from view of the choice of instruments will have great significance in theory and practice. Systematically studying on the choice of instruments in policy implementation will eke out the gap in"Policy Implementation Research".