ABSTRACT
Jeffery Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky’s seminal work Implementation (1973) has the lengthy but graphic sub-title:
How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland. Or why it’s Amazing that Federal Programmes 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.
