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)

Politics & Social Sciences

Pressman, Jeffrey L.

Wildavsky, Aaron B.

Politics & Government

University of California Press

Government, Public Policy, Urban Studies

Federal Programs and City Politics: The Dynamics of the Aid Process in Oakland (Oakland Project series)

Federal programs and city politics : the dynamics of the aid process in Oakland

Business & Money

Economics

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

History

Wíldavsky, Aaron

Americas

Univ. Of California Pr.

Financing the New Federalism: Revenue Sharing, Conditional Grants and Taxation (Routledge Revivals)

Financing the New Federalism is the fifth in a series on the governance of metropolitan areas which aimed to improve the political organisation of metropolitan regions in America. Originally published in 1975, this particular study focusses on federal revenue sharing exploring its effects and implications with the purpose of providing a breadth of views on the subject for policy-makers. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

Oates, Wallace E.

Inman, Robert P.

McGuire, Martin

Reischauer, Robert D.

Routledge

Financing the New Federalism is the fifth in a series on the governance of metropolitan areas which aimed to improve the political organisation of metropolitan regions in America. Originally published in 1975, this particular study focusses on federal revenue sharing exploring its effects and implications with the purpose of providing a breadth of views on the subject for policy-makers. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

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