Integrating institutional and implementation issues into policy decisions - an introduction and overview, Derick W. Brinkerhoff. Part 1 Policy analysis and the new institutionalism; analyzing policy reform and reforming policy analysis - an institutionalist approach, Ronald J. Oakerson and S. Tjip Walker; the institutional analysis and development framework - application to irrigation policy in Nepal, Wai Fung Lam et al; an institutional analysis of local-level common pool woodstock governance and management - implications for environmental policy, James T. Thomson; analyzing bureaucracy and rural development policy implementation - the limits of hierarchy, Norman K. Nicholson. Part 2 Policy analysis and implementation frameworks: a comparative approach to the assessment of decentralization policy in Developing Countries, Richard Vengroff and Ogwo Jombo Umeh; analyzing the role of the public sector in Africa - implications for civil service reform policies, Jerry M. Silverman; sustainability assessment for agriculture policies - comparative cases from agricultural extension, Daniel J. Gustafson; an analytic framework for policy implementation - assessing progress with Madagascar's national environmental action plan, Derick W. Brinkerhoff; exporting policy paradigms - the case of Chinese forestry, Peter deLeon and Vicki L. Spencer. Part 3 Policy analysis and implementation tools: stakeholder analysis and political mapping - tools for successfully implementing policy reforms, Benjamin L. Crosby; interactive policy analysis - process methods for policy reform, Louise G. White; analytic approaches to reducing the costs of corruption - West African livestock marketing and trade policy, John S. Holtzman and Nicholas P. Kulibaba; climbing the objective tree - policy analysis and reform in the Philippines, Alice L. Morton.