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Summarizes the findings of 24 empirical studies of state performance of six West European countries across four policy sectors -- the steel industry, health care, finance, & HIV & blood supply -- to determine why some public management policies succeed & others fail. Governance challenges of managing decline, reform, innovation, & crisis in the policy sectors were faced by different institutional configurations of state, private, & international actors, rules, & practices, & in differing environmental circumstances, including consensual & imposed policy styles. The programmatic & political dimensions of state performance were viewed separately to capture discrepancies in perceived performance. The comparative assessment reveals some patterns of governance success & failure, & attempts are made to tie results to idiosyncratic national policy styles & to cross-national institutional patterns. Certain hypotheses concerning the influence of political structure, political culture, policy frame, governance task, & symbolic potential are tested. 5 Tables, 8 Figures. L. A. Hoffman