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Ideas and inducements in mental health policy

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  • Janet A. Weiss

    (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy Studies and the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan)

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Between 1946 and 1963, federal officials sought to change the national practice of providing mental health care, away from state-run mental institutions and toward outpatient care based in local communities. These policy makers relied on two policy instruments, ideas and inducements. Both instruments contributed to unexpectedly significant changes in federal, state, and local policy. I conclude that a policy instrument framework helps to disentangle the strands of successful public management, and that it is useful to think of ideas as policy instruments that offer leverage on policy outcomes.

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  • Janet A. Weiss, 1990. "Ideas and inducements in mental health policy," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 9(2), pages 178-200.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:9:y:1990:i:2:p:178-200
    DOI: 10.2307/3325411
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    1. Richard F. Elmore, 1987. "Instruments And Strategy In Public Policy," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 7(1), pages 174-186, September.
    2. Janet A. Weiss, 1982. "Coping with complexity: An experimental study of public policy decision-making," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 2(1), pages 66-87.
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    1. Laurence E. Lynn, 1994. "Public management research: The triumph of art over science," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(2), pages 231-259.

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