Title 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 and Aaron Wildavsky

Edition Third edition Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984] ©1984

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MELB	353.008484 P935I3		AVAILABLE

Description xxvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Series Oakland project series Oakland Project series. Contents 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) Notes Includes indexes Bibliography Bibliography: pages 261-271 Includes indexes Subject United States. Economic Development Administration. Manpower policy -- California -- Oakland. Public administration. Public works -- California -- Oakland. SUBJECT Oakland (Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79118971 -- Public works Author Wildavsky, Aaron B. Oakland Project. LC no. 83017987 ISBN 0520052323 0520052331 (paperback) 0520053311 (paperback)

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