“There is (or there must be) a large literature about implementation in the social sciences- or so
we have been told by numerous people... It must be there; it should be there; but in fact it is not.
There is a kind of semantic illusion at work here because everything ever done in public policy or
public administration must, in the nature of things, have some bearing on implementation....
Nevertheless, excect for the few pieces mentioned in the body of this book, we have been
unable to find any significant analytic work dealing with implementation” (Pressman and
Wildavsky,1973: 166).