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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1 An Introduction to Policy Implementation: Who Has Been Paying Attention to Implementation?; Critical Issues in Policy Implementation: The Relationship Between Formulation and Implementation; Criteria and Focus of Program Evaluation; From Whose Pe Chapter 2 A Framework for Implementation Analysis: A Conceptual Framework of the Implementation Process: Tractability of the Problem (s); Ability of Policy Decision to Structure Implementation; Nonstatutory Variables Affecting Implementation; Stages (Depen Chapter 3 New Communities, The Promise Unfulfilled: Attempts to Develop a New Communities Program; Implementation of the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act of 1970: The Application Process and HUD's Administration; Problems Facing Private Devel Chapter 4 Strategic Retreat from Stringent Objectives: Automotive Emissions Control, 1970-1977: The Background, History, and Content of the 1970 Clean Air Amendments: Background and Early Control Amendments: Background and Early Control Efforts; The 197 Chapter 5 One Principal, Two Programs: Desegregation of the Nation's Schools, South and North: The Court's Brown Decision; From "All Deliberate Speed" to Compliance in the South: Federal Indifference; The 1964 Civil Rights Act; OCR Guidelines and Enf Chapter 6 The Delayed Takeoff of Compensatory Education: Implementing Title I of ESEA, 1965-78: Passage and Content of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Legislative History; Legacy of the Formulation Stage; Conclusion; Implementing Title Chapter 7 An Initial Success in the Quiet Revolution: the California Coastal Commissions, 1972-77: The Historical and Legal Background of the Coastal Commissions: Enactment of Coastal Legislation; Provisions of the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act Chapter 8 The Pathos of Implementation, Reconsidered: Cumulative Incrementalism; Implementation Under Suboptimal Conditions; It Uphill All the Way?; The Tasks at Hand; A Concluding Remark; For Further Reflection; Notes Chapter 9 Postscript Chapter 10 Acknowledgments Chapter 11 Index
