Hierarchy and Market: The Mechanism of Policy Implementation Mechanism of policy implementation rofessional power. The third logic in public policy: For decades now, the popular watchwords driving policy formation (and implementation have been competitionand efficiency', the first referring to competition in a free market, and the second to the benefit of the skilled management of firms (governmental agencies).. will show in some detail how properties of professionalism fit together to form a whole that differs systematically from the free market on the one hand, and the.bureaucracy, in the other. Freidson, 2001, p 2-3) Therefore freidson contends that like Max Webers model of rational-legal bureaucracy which represents managerialism and Adam Smiths model of the free market which represents consumerism"(p 180), professionalism is conceived of as one of the three logically distinct methods of organizing and controlling (p180)Mechanism of policy implementation Professional power: The third logic in public policy: “For decades now, the popular watchwords driving policy formation (and implementation) have been ‘competition’ and ‘efficiency’, the first referring to competition in a free market, and the second to the benefit of the skilled management of firms (governmental agencies). …I will show in some detail how properties of professionalism fit together to form a whole that differs systematically from the free market on the one hand, and the …bureaucracy, in the other.” (Freidson, 2001, p.2-3) Therefore, Freidson contends that “like Max Weber’s model of rational-legal bureaucracy which represents managerialism and Adam Smith’s model of the free market which represents consumerism” (p. 180), “professionalism is conceived of as one of the three logically distinct methods of organizing and controlling.” (p.180) Hierarchy and Market: The Mechanism of Policy Implementation