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An Implementation Analysis Of The Water Resources Development Act Of 1986, James Joseph Rich
An Implementation Analysis Of The Water Resources Development Act Of 1986, James Joseph Rich
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Implementation research, an area once largely ignored in favor of policy design and impact assessment, now constitutes a significant portion of the policy analysis literature. One of the key issues addressed by the theory building portion of that literature is the necessity of precisely identifying implementation variables, conditions, or actions that measurably contribute to the success or failure of implementation efforts over a broad range of policies and programs, and to then suggest some order of significance. In order to test the validity of a variable set proposed by the literature, a multivariate implementation model was employed as the basis …