TY - CHAP AB - This chapter presents a conceptual framework and methodological guide for researching the process of public management policy change in the Latin America region. It provides an explicit the methodological approach for case study research on this topic. The focus on the Latin America region is due to the sponsorship of the Inter-American Development Bank, which desired an explicit methodological guide for conducting research on public sector management reform. While the chapter is specifically geared to this purpose, it also exhibits a distinctive general approach to a large class of case study research designs. This class includes instrumental case study research about processes, incorporating variants that are rich in narrative, explicit in their explanatory framework, and comparative (Barzelay, 2002). VL - 13 SN - 978-1-84950-218-4, 978-0-76231-031-9/0732-1317 DO - 10.1016/S0723-1318(04)13014-4 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-1318(04)13014-4 AU - Barzelay Michael AU - Gaetani Francisco AU - Carlos Cortázar Velarde Juan AU - Cejudo Guillermo ED - Lawrence Jones ED - Kuno Schedler ED - Riccardo Mussari PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - 14. A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE FOR RESEARCH ON PUBLIC MANAGEMENT POLICY CHANGE IN THE LATIN AMERICAN REGION T2 - Strategies for Public Management Reform T3 - Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 349 EP - 370 Y2 - 2024/09/26 ER -