This article applies analysis of covariance to examine the impact of economic development level and regional political culture upon policy outputs and outcomes in Yugoslav communes. Both development and region exercise a significant impact on most of the 19 policy indicators under consideration, but five distinct causal patterns emerged from the analysis. This suggests that no single model of the nexus between political and economic factors in the public policy process is sufficient and that more analytic attention should be paid to discovering the conditions that determine which type of model applies.
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