The policy was also focused –it targeted a single city, Oakland, California and it was (at least in theory) Under the control of a single federal agency, the Economic Development Agency (EDA),that was committed to its success. Resources were not a problem; ample funds were available to support the program, and a lot of money was spent. Yet he policy failed miserably, producing few jobs and leaving much frustration in its wake. Pressman and Wildavsky wanted to know why policies like this, best-case scenarios with the seemingly aligned for success, failed. Their intensive case study brought the complex world between policy intention and policy outcome to the attention of a broad audience in political science. What they found set the foundation for an explosive growth in implementation studies, for what they found wasn’t pretty