Comparative Policy Evaluation
About the Book Series
The Comparative Policy Evaluation series is an interdisciplinary and internationally focused set of books that embodies within it a strong emphasis on comparative analyses of governance issues—drawing from all continents and many different nation states. The lens through which these policy initiatives are viewed and reviewed is that of evaluation. These evaluation assessments are done mainly from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, economics, policy science, auditing, law, and human rights. The books also provide a strong longitudinal perspective on the evolution of the policy issues being analyzed.
From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice
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By Kerry Bruce, Valentine J Ghandi, Steffen Bohni Nielsen
September 18, 2026
From Algorithms to Evidence: Using GenAI in Evaluation Practice offers a timely, practice‑grounded guide for evaluators and development professionals navigating the fast‑moving world of generative AI. Building on the foundations laid in Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation (2025), this volume ...
From Silos to Ecologies: Towards an Ecology of Evidence to Navigate Solutions
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By Sanjeev Sridharan, Frans L. Leeuw
September 11, 2026
From Silos to Ecologies offers a new way to understand how knowledge is generated, interpreted, and used to address today’s most complex social challenges. It introduces the concept with clarity and purpose, showing why single studies, narrow methods, or rigid evaluation systems are no longer ...
The Power of Commissioning: Enabling Democratic Evaluation
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By Nicoletta Stame, María Bustelo
September 01, 2026
Far more than a contractual step, commissioning shapes what is evaluated, whose voices matter, and how evidence informs democratic governance. The Power of Commissioning: Enabling Democratic Evaluation brings long overdue attention to this influential yet often overlooked dimension of evaluation ...
Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation
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By Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Francesco Mazzeo Rinaldi, Gustav Jakob Petersson
January 30, 2026
Artificial Intelligence and Evaluation: Emerging Technologies and Their Implications for Evaluation is a groundbreaking exploration of how the landscape of program evaluation will be redefined by artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies. In an era where digital technologies ...
Theories of Change in Reality: Strengths, Limitations and Future Directions
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By Andrew Koleros, Marie-Hélène Adrien, Tony Tyrrell
October 26, 2025
For over 50 years, evaluators have used theories of change to articulate the causal logic underpinning how an intervention is intended to bring about a desired change. From its origins in programme evaluation, the approach has been adopted more widely for purposes from program design to program ...
Evaluation in the Post-Truth World
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By Mita Marra, Karol Olejniczak, Arne Paulson
August 29, 2025
Evaluation in the Post-Truth World explores the relationship between the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation and other forms of research evidence, and the post-truth phenomena of antiscience sentiments combined with illiberal tendencies of the ...
Towards Sustainable Futures: The Role of Evaluation
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By Ida Lindkvist, Per Øyvind Bastøe, Kim Forss
July 30, 2025
Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability. Rather than proposing a single definition of sustainability or methodological approach, this book gives us the tools to improve the quality and relevance of evaluation of ...
Success in Evaluation: Focusing on the Positives
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By Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Rudi Turksema, Peter van der Knapp
October 14, 2024
Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive ...
Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19
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By Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo, Ray C. Rist
October 04, 2024
Did evaluation meet the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis? How were evaluation practices, architectures, and values affected? Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19 is the first to offer a broad canvas that explores government responses and ideas to tackle the challenges that evaluation practice ...
Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”
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By Rob D. van den Berg, Penny Hawkins, Nicoletta Stame
September 25, 2023
In Ethics for Evaluation the diverse perspectives on ethical guidance in evaluation are untangled and ordered in a theoretical framework focusing on evaluations doing no harm, tackling bad and doing good. Divided into four parts a diverse group of subject experts present a practical look at ethics,...
Changing Bureaucracies: Adapting to Uncertainty, and How Evaluation Can Help
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By Burt Perrin, Tony Tyrrell
May 30, 2022
In Changing Bureaucracies, international experts provide an unparalleled look at how public sector bureaucracies can better adapt to the reality of unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity, and how they can better respond to the emerging needs and demands of citizens and beneficiaries. In...
The Realpolitik of Evaluation: Why Demand and Supply Rarely Intersect
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By Markus Palenberg, Arne Paulson
May 06, 2022
The Realpolitik of Evaluation shines a light on the divergent demands for evaluation. But what explains the "gap" between what those on the "demand" side expect in terms of evaluation results, and the "supply" of information provided by evaluators? Can anything be done to narrow this gap? What ...