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 ... on a Foundation (The Oakland Project Series)

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 ... on a Foundation (The Oakland Project Series)

Author: Pressman

ISBN: 9780520053311

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Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 1992-07-01

Number of Pages: 304

Weight: 0.3630 kg

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