Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation is the first book to advocate the virtues of a long-term perspective for policy evaluation as well as to show how evaluations can take a longer time perspecti
Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed fro
The International Evaluation Research Group devoted one of its annual meetings to addressing a spectrum of actions sponsored by private-sector organizations to product public value. The 11 papers in t
This anthology collects several essays and scholarly articles from a variety of thinkers on the subject of the application of the concept of equity in addressing the study of a variety of social and e
Political and other social scientists investigate the impact crises have on evaluating public and corporate policy, and how policy evaluation can contribute in times of turbulence. The volume was conc
Edited by Barbier (French Nation Centre for Scientific Research) and Hawkins (Rockefeller Foundation), the essays in this book explore how culture affects the evaluation of political and social progra
Knowledge grows as ideas are tested against each other. Agreement is not resolved simply by naming concepts but in the dialectical process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. There are many echoes o
In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will b
Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this debate among evaluators on how evaluations are used has been essentially a cl
Evaluation has come of age. Today most social and political observers would have difficulty imagining a society where evaluation is not a fixture of daily life, from individual programs to local auth
Open to the Public grows out of concern with evaluation in the public arena and the struggle to understand how best to use the information it generates. Many concepts and models of evaluation, how to
Like honesty and clean water, "accountability" is invariably seen as a good thing. Conversely, the absence of accountability is associated with most of the greatest abuses in human history. Accountabi
Information--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management. Surely today there is no problem with information, for this is the age of information o
