The New Federalism, <i>by Michael D. Reagan ; </i> 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 the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build Morals on a Foundation of Ruined Hopes, <i>by Aaron B. Wildavsky and Jeffrey L. Pressman</i>
Новый федерализм, Майкл Д. Рейган; Осуществление — как большие ожидания в Вашингтоне разбиваются в Окленде; или почему удивительно, что федеральные программы вообще работают, сагa Администрации экономического развития, рассказанная двумя сочувствующими наблюдателями, стремящимися выстроить нравственность на основании разрушенных надежд, Аарон Б. Уайлдавский и Джеффри Л. Прессман
1973-12-01
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Acknowledgments Participants Preface to the Third Edition: Implementation and Evaluation as Learning Preface to the First Edition 1. Appearances 2. Formulating Policy 3. Trials of Implementation 4. Two Smaller Programs: Business Loans and the Health Center 5. The Complexity of Joint Action 6. Learning from Experience 7. Economic Theory and Program Implementation 8. Implementation as Evolution 9. What Should Evaluation Mean to Implementation? 10. Implementation as Mutual Adaptation 11. Implementation as Exploration Appendix: EDA Chronology Bibliography Subject Index Index of Authors Cited
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Economic theory informs but does not fully explain program implementation; practical implementation depends on mutual adaptation and organizational dynamics.
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Effective implementation requires learning from experience, evaluation, and viewing implementation as an evolutionary, exploratory process.
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Federal policy implementation often fails to meet Washington's expectations when carried out locally, exemplified by Oakland's experience.
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Implementation of federal programs (Economic Development Administration) is complex and involves trials, joint action, and mutual adaptation among actors.
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Smaller programs (business loans and health centers) illustrate specific implementation challenges within larger federal efforts.
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Public policy implementation of federal programs (Economic Development Administration programs)
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Processes, challenges, and mechanisms of implementation including formulation, trials, joint action complexity, learning, evaluation, mutual adaptation, and evolutionary exploration affecting why and how federal programs succeed or fail
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