Policy implementation in a transition economy : two decades of small and medium enterprise (SME) development in Ukraine.
Journal: University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury)
Year: 2015

Current theoretical frameworks for assessing policy implementation have been developed almost exclusively in the context of market-based, pluralist democracies. The lack of applicable implementation theory outside this ‘western’ setting inspired this research to investigate policy processes in more diverse contexts. This research thus applied existing implementation theory to the post-Soviet sphere, utilising current frameworks to test conditions in a post-communist context. This policy lens app