ORGANIZATIONAL POSITION AND PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

Examples of policy implementation success suggest that organizational characteristics are important but policy researchers generally neglect the explicit study of organizational characteristics. Data from a mailed survey are used here to examine two organizational characteristics in one policy area in a single state. The advice of capacity-builders’ (federal and state agencies, municipal associations) about organizing local energy management programs through the appointment of “comprehensive local energy coordinators” is one concern. The other is the importance of the regular organizational position of the part-time community energy coordinators on the “comprehensiveness” of community energy programs. © 1990, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.