Reviews for Global Boards: One Desire, Many Realities

The average rating for Global Boards: One Desire, Many Realities based on 10 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-03 00:00:00 Minh Tran If only every policy maker and every voter would read this book! Pressman and Wildavsky dig in and show how the best of intentions, and even seemingly great plans, fall apart when it's time to implement them on the ground. They show the difficulties in coordinating the many stakeholders that governments have to bring together, in synchronizing steps carried out by an array of public and private organizations, and of keeping everybody on board over the course of the time it takes to execute plans

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-14 00:00:00 Elaine C. Lueras I recommend reading the 3rd edition, the added articles at the end have greater focus on the holistic concept of implementation and evaluation. While I don't think the case study given is unique in many ways, the analysis at the end makes the book worth reading for itself. I really enjoyed many of the sentences written with a way too clever smile.

Review # 3 was written on 2019-02-01 00:00:00 Hal Mcdonald Despite the clunky name this is a very good book about the differences between policy creation and implementation. I would love to use this in our program evaluation or policy courses but there may be too many details and not enough time to go over the important details. This book better lends itself to in-person discussion.

Review # 4 was written on 2020-04-27 00:00:00 Christopher Esch Interesting overview of some late-60s urban development projects and why they failed to live up to expectations. I would have like to have seen more of a discussion on line-workers, rather than agency upper management, but this is worthwhile. The overall lesson--that policymaking without an eye on implementation is naive--strikes me as essential.

Review # 5 was written on 2017-03-13 00:00:00 Matthew Pierce Implementation, considered a classic in the field, is the story about what happens to laws that are passed in the process of trying to make the actual world abide by them. It tends to be a part of the policy process that is less dramatic, and thus receives less attention, but is obviously important. The chief virtue of Implementation is that it is eminently readable, flowing in much the same way as a novel. Its insight, for what it is worth, is pretty commonplace: it is not always easy to make ch

Review # 6 was written on 2012-03-04 00:00:00 Kimberly Lynch Implementation is that stage of the policy process when laws are translated into action. Implementation, in short, is making laws reality. The fact of having passed a law normally does little. Actions must be taken to make the laws operate. This is reputed to be a pioneering work on the study of implementation. Pressman and Wildavsky explore the subject by developing a case study of Oakland California, in which they examine how a government agency tried to address unemployment. The work conclude

Review # 7 was written on 2011-03-16 00:00:00 Brent Matsen So, I don't, as a rule, put school books up here but I read this one very much like a novel and not exactly when it was assigned. It starts strong with a case study of the EDA in Oakland but then sadly lapses into a bunch of small ideas oh so common in these types of books. I've said it once and I'll say it again - a taxonomy of concepts does not constitute an original idea. There are, to be sure, six types of everything.

Review # 8 was written on 2010-01-04 00:00:00 Jean Serrano I really liked this. A thorough case study of why public works projects failed in Oakland, showing how good intentions, good funding, and consensus can still fall apart when it comes to actually putting a project into action. A lot of the obstacles seem like common sense but the, as this book shows, that common sense can still be overlooked in the heat of wanting to Get Things Done.

Review # 9 was written on 2016-02-24 00:00:00 Allen Myerson Implementation was a nice account of a federal effort to relieve a city riddled with hyper-unemployment. The authors offer their suggestions as to why the program failed and what could be done for future programs of this nature. I suggest this book for any public policy, intergovernmental relations, or public administration student. It will surely provide insight!

Review # 10 was written on 2010-04-18 00:00:00 Hollie Lopez Every public administration student reads this book at least once. I've read it or parts of it a number of times. But, now that I'm completely embroiled in implementing a new program in a large city agency, it's even more telling.