The question of the effect of administrative arrangements on program administration and program outcomes is a central question for those interested in policy implementation. In the implementation of federal programs, the specific state-level administrative arrangements can have a significant impact not only on resource distribution patterns, but also on the ability of involved agencies to secure adequate state resources for the program. This paper addresses this question through the lens of the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund program designed to fund water quality infrastructure. Employing a dataset covering nearly thirty years of state-level data, we find that measures of administrative structure and state capability are more powerful explanators of state resource decisions than are more standard explanations of politics, needs, and ideology.

行政安排对方案行政和方案成果的影响问题是那些对政策实施感兴趣的人的中心问题。在实施联邦计划时，特定的州级行政安排不仅会对资源分配模式产生重大影响，而且还会对所涉及的机构确保为计划提供足够的州资源的能力产生重大影响。本文通过旨在为水质基础设施提供资金的“清洁水州循环贷款基金”计划的角度解决了这个问题。通过使用涵盖近三十年州级数据的数据集，我们发现，相比于对政治，需求，