Evaluating a Federal Program

In Edward C. Banfield, Here the People Rule: Selected Essays (Washington, DC: AEI, 1991). Reprinted in Edward C. Banfield, Here the People Rule: Selected Essays (Washington, DC: AEI, 1991).

Excerpt:

Evaluation of federal government programs is in a way a nonsubject because there hasn’t been a serious evaluation of a federal program for reasons I’ll go into a little later. My thought is to tell you how a particular federal program was “evaluated.” The Model Cities Program is one that I have had some hand in evaluating, so that in a way, this is a case history, and, unfortunately, partly an autobiographical one.

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