Implementation - (Oakland Project) 3rd Edition by Jeffrey L Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 304
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: American Government
Series Title: Oakland Project
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Age Range: Adult
Book theme: General
Author: Jeffrey L Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky
Language: English

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Of universal application . . . this is an analysis of why the urban crisis has proved so intractable. . . . Nobody who reads this book will ever again be surprised by the gulf between promise and performance in a program to help revive or save or rebuild the country's cities."-- "New York Times"

"The potential good that can come out of this study cannot be exaggerated."-- "Virginia Quarterly Review"

"There are innumerable ways to profit from this fully documented yet highly readable tale of earnest but relatively unsuccessful ways of spending the taxpayers' money."-- "National Review"

"They make an unimpeachable case. for close attention to the modes of implementing policy, and . . . constitute the first solid survey of the administrative thickets through which future urban policies will have to make their way."-- "New Republic"