In his Advice and Consent, deLeon compared the relative strengths and weaknesses of the segmentation of the policy stages /process framework as it affects the policy sciences research agenda. On the one hand, these works brought a new richness to the policy sciences, as Polsby and other policy scholars emphasized of more rigorous, hypothese-generating-models, might have overlooked. For instance, Pressman and Wildavsky’s detailing of the high drama performed by the Economic Development Administration and its incredibly cumbersome ballet with the city of Oakland , partially initiated to ward off potential urban violence, demonstrated just how involved and actually convolured policy implementation could be. Similarly, Titmuss’s normatively oriented evaluation of comparative blood transfusion policies in The Gift Relationship forcefully argues against a reliance on standard benefit-cost analyses that were the growing standard of program evaluation.