<p>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.</p>

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

<p>Wildavsky, Aaron and Caiden, Naomi, The New Politics of the Budgetary Process, 4th edition*\ Explores of how federal budget decisions are made and how formal budget institutions and processes are interwoven with political dynamics. The book explains how the federal budget process has evolved and analyzes recent developments in key areas: entitlements, defense, deficit/surplus and reforms.  For those interested in politics and public administration, as well as anyone who seeks to understand a decision-making process that affects the lives of virtually all Americans.</p>

The new politics of the budgetary process

Business & Money

Economics

Scott,Foresman

Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics

Polsby, Nelson, W.

Scribner

The Politics of Mistrust: Estimating American Oil and Gas Resources

′These chapters are excellent though not definitive interpretations of the history they selectively cover. They offer fresh, insightful, plausible interpretaions of the events and processes they describe. For this reason alone, this book deserves the serious attention of anyone interested in understanding how energy policy got where it is today, understood in terms of players, perspectives, and social epistemology. Its contribution as a study about the persistence of policy conflict under conditions of distrust among the major players is also solid enough because these conditions and consequences are made so arrestingly clear.′ -- Policy Sciences Volume 14, Number 3, June 1982

Tenenbaum, Ellen

Albin, Pat

Sage Publications, Inc.

The runaway convention or proving a preposterous negative

Taxpayers' Foundation

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