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
Jeffrey L. Pressman (Author), Aaron B. Wildavsky (Author)
Explores and elaborates the relationship between the evaluation of programs and the study of their implementation. This title suggests that tendencies to assimilate the two should be resisted.
Print Book, English, 1984
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University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984
case study
xxvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780520052321, 9780520052338, 9789681651503, 9780520053311, 0520052323, 0520052331, 9681651502, 0520053311
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Appearances
Formulating policy
Trials of implementation
Two smaller programs : business loans and the health center
The complexity of joint action
Learning from experience
Economic theory and program implementation
Implementation as evolution (1979)
What should evaluation mean to implementation? (1983)
Implementation as mutual adaptation (1983) 00 Implementation as exploration (1983)
Appendix : EDA chronology