The Strategic Action Field Framework for Policy Implementation Research
基于社会技能和战略行动场域理论，提出了一个用于分析政策实施的多层次框架，整合了复杂性、组织、经济和人类行为理论，有助于理解实施系统的变化及其对外部目标群体的影响。
Drawing upon the theories of social skill and strategic action fields (SAFs), this article presents a SAF Framework for Implementation Research. In the framework, policy implementation systems are conceptualized as multilevel SAFs that form around a public service intervention. Within this context, socially skilled actors leverage diverse sources of authority—including but not limited to political authority—to enable change or stability to a public service intervention. While the framework has underpinnings in field theory, it is able to encompass multiple theoretical perspectives, including complexity theories, organizational theories, economic theories, and theories of human behavior. Importantly, the SAF Framework allows for the integration of results relevant to both management and policy—change in implementation systems, and change in the behavior or conditions of an external target group.