Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland

Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland

Jeffrey L. Pressman

University of California Press

Pressman and Wildavsky show how the best of intentions, and even seemingly great plans, fall apart when it's time to implement them on the ground. They show the difficulties in coordinating the many stakeholders that governments have to bring together, in synchronizing steps carried out by an array of public and private organizations, and of keeping everybody on board over the course of the time it takes to execute plans. They show that even if each step in the implementation of a policy seems like a no-brainer, a long series of steps that are, individually, almost certain to succeed can be almost certain to fail.

Implementation

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Three substantial new chapters and a new preface in this third edition explore and elaborate the relationship between the evaluation of programs and the study of their implementation. The authors suggest that tendencies to assimilate the two should be resisted. Evaluation should retain its enlightenment function while the study of implementation should strengthen its focus on learning.

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 ruined hopes (The Oakland Project series)

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Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland

Implementation

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 ruined hopes (The Oakland Project series)