Comparative Policy Evaluation – serie
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Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Av Evert Vedung
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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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 …
Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation
Av Gustav Jakob Petersson, Jonathan D. Breul
Inbunden, 2017
2520 kr
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We are living in a cyber society. Mobile devices, social media, the Internet, crime cameras, and other diverse sources can be pulled together to form massive datasets, known as big data, which make it possible to learn things we could not begin to comprehend otherwise. While private companies are …
Realpolitik of Evaluation
Why Demand and Supply Rarely Intersect
Av Markus Palenberg, Arne Paulson
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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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 …
Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation
Increasing Relevance and Utility
Av Kim Forss, Ida Lindkvist m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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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 perspective than they usually do. To get there, it is necessary to understand the decision-making context of …
Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation
Increasing Relevance and Utility
Av Kim Forss, Ida Lindkvist m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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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 perspective than they usually do. To get there, it is necessary to understand the decision-making context of …
Realpolitik of Evaluation
Why Demand and Supply Rarely Intersect
Av Markus Palenberg, Arne Paulson
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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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 …
Changing Bureaucracies
Adapting to Uncertainty, and How Evaluation Can Help
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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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 …
Changing Bureaucracies
Adapting to Uncertainty, and How Evaluation Can Help
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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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 …
Evaluation Enterprise
A Critical View
Av Jan-Eric Furubo, Nicoletta Stame
Häftad, 2020
649 kr
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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 from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame have assembled an …
Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices
Challenges and Opportunities
Av Maria Barrados, Jeremy Lonsdale
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices brings together academic analysis with insights from practitioners to discuss the potential for collaboration in audit and evaluation practices between three professional disciplines. Clearly written and thoughtfully organized, this volume is structured …
Collaboration in Public Services
The Challenge for Evaluation
Av Bill Jenkins, Andrew Gray m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1827 kr
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The International Group for Policy and Program Evaluation (INTEVAL) serves as a forum for scholars and practitioners of public policy to discuss ideas and developments as a community dedicated to enhancing the contribution of evaluation to government. From the group's studies has emerged a concern …
Quality Matters
Seeking Confidence in Evaluating, Auditing, and Performance Reporting
Av John Winston Mayne, John Winston Mayne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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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 overload. It pours onto our computer screens and out of our printers. Indeed, many governments …
Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization
Migration, Welfare, and Borders
Inbunden, 2005
2512 kr
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The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization is a welcome corrective to the tendency to present globalization as a homogenous concept, and the failure to describe how it operates in specific regions. Ribas-Mateos examines globalization and migration across the Mediterranean, using an innovative, …
From Studies to Streams
Managing Evaluative Systems
Av Nicoletta Stame, Nicoletta Stame
Inbunden, 2005
2512 kr
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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 …
Open to the Public
Evaluation in the Public Sector
Av Jonathan D. Breul, Richard Boyle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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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 …
Making Accountability Work
Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit
Av Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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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. Accountability is thus closely linked with the exercise of power and the legitimacy of policies and those …
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons
Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
Av Ray Rist, Marie‑Louise Bemelmans‑Videc m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
750 kr
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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 …
Can Governments Learn?
Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation and Organizational Learning
Av Frans L. Leeuw, Frans L. Leeuw m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
735 kr
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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 …
Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Av Evert Vedung
Häftad, 2000
793 kr
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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 …
Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation
Functions and Integration in Seven Governments
Av Andrew Gray, Andrew Gray m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
502 kr
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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 …
Ethics for Evaluation
Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”
Av Rob D. van den Berg, Penny Hawkins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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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, …
Ethics for Evaluation
Beyond “doing no harm” to “tackling bad” and “doing good”
Av Rob D. van den Berg, Penny Hawkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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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, …
Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices
Challenges and Opportunities
Av Maria Barrados, Jeremy Lonsdale
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices brings together academic analysis with insights from practitioners to discuss the potential for collaboration in audit and evaluation practices between three professional disciplines. Clearly written and thoughtfully organized, this volume is structured …
Doing Public Good?
Private Actors, Evaluation, and Public Value
Av R. Pablo Guerrero O., Peter Wilkins
Häftad, 2021
619 kr
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This book examines the contributions of non-public organizations, such as foundations, philanthropies, charities, non-governmental organizations, private businesses, and entrepreneurs to public goods and services. Too often the impact of the contributions of such private actors are overlooked. …
Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19
Av Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
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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 …
Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19
Av Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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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 …
Theories of Change in Reality
Strengths, Limitations and Future Directions
Av Andrew Koleros, Marie-Hélène Adrien m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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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 …
Theories of Change in Reality
Strengths, Limitations and Future Directions
Av Andrew Koleros, Marie-Hélène Adrien m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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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 …
Towards Sustainable Futures
The Role of Evaluation
Av Ida Kristine Lindkvist, Per Øyvind Bastøe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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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 …
Evaluation in the Post-Truth World
Av Mita Marra, Karol Olejniczak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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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 …
