Evaluation Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cultur... Lees meer

Evaluating the Complex

Mita Marra

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have ... Lees meer

The Evaluation Enterprise

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment.... Lees meer

Evaluation

Jan-Eric Furubo

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation | nr. 17
• Evaluation has come of age. Today most social and political observers would have difficulty imagining a society where evaluation is not a fixture of d... Lees meer

Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• 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... Lees meer

Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices brings together academic analysis with insights from practitioners to discuss the potential for collaborat... Lees meer

Changing Bureaucracies

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• In Changing Bureaucracies , international experts provide an unparalleled look at how public sector bureaucracies can better adapt to the reality of u... Lees meer

From Studies to Streams

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation | nr. 12
• Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this debate among evaluators on ... Lees meer

Quality Matters

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Information--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management. Surely today there is no problem with... Lees meer

The Idea of War and Peace

Irving Louis Horowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression. In examin... Lees meer

The Evidence Book

Olaf Rieper, Frans L Leeuw, Tom Ling

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Knowledge grows as ideas are tested against each other. Agreement is not resolved simply by naming concepts but in the dialectical process of thesis, ... Lees meer

Making Accountability Work

Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Burt Perrin, Jeremy Lonsdale

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation | nr. 14
• Like honesty and clean water, ""accountability"" is invariably seen as a good thing. Conversely, the absence of accountability is associated with most... Lees meer

Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• 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... Lees meer

Theories of Change in Reality

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• For over 50 years, evaluators have used theories of change to articulate the causal logic underpinning how an intervention is intended to bring about ... Lees meer

Success in Evaluation

Rudi Turksema

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learni... Lees meer

Ethics for Evaluation

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• In Ethics for Evaluation the diverse perspectives on ethical guidance in evaluation are untangled and ordered in a theoretical framework focusing on e... Lees meer

Evaluation in the Post-Truth World

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• This book explores the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation, the post-truth phenomena of anti-scien... Lees meer

Open to the Public

Jonathan D Breul

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• 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 generate... Lees meer

The Realpolitik of Evaluation

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• The Realpolitik of Evaluation shines a light on the divergent demands for evaluation. But what explains the "gap" between what those on the "demand" s... Lees meer

Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public ... Lees meer

The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization

Natalia Ribas-Mateos

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization is a welcome corrective to the tendency to present globalization as a homogenous concept, and the failur... Lees meer

The Idea of War and Peace

Irving Louis Horowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression. In examin... Lees meer

Evaluating the Complex

Mita Marra

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have ... Lees meer

Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Policy Evaluation
• Did evaluation meet the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis? How were evaluation practices, architectures, and values affected? Policy Evaluation in the... Lees meer