Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland : Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, this Being a Saga of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers who Seek to Build Morals on a Foundation of Ruined Hopes

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University of California Press, 1979 - Political Science - 209 pages
 

Contents

APPEARANCES
1
FORMULATING POLICY
7
TRIALS OF IMPLEMENTATION
35
BUSINESS LOANS
70
THE COMPLEXITY OF JOINT ACTION
87
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
125
ECONOMIC THEORY
147
IMPLEMENTATION IN CONTEXT 1979
163
IMPLEMENTATION AS EVOLUTION 1979
177
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Aaron Wildavsky was, until his death in 1993, professor of political science and public policy at the University of California in Berkeley. He was also director of its Survey Research Center.

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