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.
Evaluation and Turbulent Times: Reflections on a Discipline in Disarray
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By Jan-Eric Furubo
September 28, 2017
Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can ...
Speaking Justice to Power: Ethical and Methodological Challenges for Evaluators
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By Kim Forss
September 28, 2017
Efficiency, economy, and equity are policy goals pursued by governments around the world, but analysts and evaluators have devoted more effort to measuring and evaluating the first two. In Speaking Justice to Power, contributors examine the concept of equity, the role it plays, and its application ...
Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution and Beyond
1st Edition
By Mita Marra
July 26, 2017
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 be evaluated. Due to the complexity of many of the initiatives, the ways of evaluating are becoming ...
Open to the Public: Evaluation in the Public Sector
1st Edition
By Jonathan D. Breul
July 26, 2017
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 undertake it, and how to make it more useful, were developed before government performance became ...
The Evidence Book
1st Edition
By Frans L. Leeuw
October 15, 2011
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 of these debates in The Evidence Book. The contributors make claims for both practitioner wisdom and...
From Studies to Streams: Managing Evaluative Systems
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By Nicoletta Stame
April 15, 2011
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 closed one—evaluators talking only among themselves. The debate has gone on seemingly oblivious to ...
Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector: Future Directions from International Experience
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By John Winston Mayne, Eduardo Zapico-Goñi
February 15, 2007
A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild ...
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
1st Edition
By Ray Rist
August 31, 2003
The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the field and clearly shows how public policy ...
Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation: Functions and Integration in Seven Governments
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By Andrew Gray, Bill Jenkins, Bob Segsworth
February 28, 2000
The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition. As governments the world over work to sustain public policy and develop much needed policy initiatives, there is an increasing need for better budgetary management and sound evaluation of both past and ...
Public Policy and Program Evaluation
1st Edition
By Evert Vedung
February 28, 2000
Evaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a recent addition to the great chain of attempts to use the ...
Can Governments Learn?: Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation and Organizational Learning
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By Frans L. Leeuw, Ray C. Rist, Richard C. Sonnichsen
October 31, 1999
There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them. Many citizens view government as inept, arthritic, and dedicated to the preservation of the bureaucratic status quo. As we close the twentieth ...
Program Evaluation and the Management of Government
1st Edition
By Ray Rist
July 31, 1999
This text is an account of the organization and use of government programme evaluation in the UK, Canada, Germany, USA, Denmark, Holland, Norway and Switzerland. Focusing on the national or federal level, it presents a systematic and comparative viewpoint....