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.
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 ...
Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation: Increasing Relevance and Utility
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By Kim Forss, Ida Lindkvist, Mark McGillivray
April 29, 2022
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 ...
Doing Public Good?: Private Actors, Evaluation, and Public Value
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By R. Pablo Guerrero O., Peter Wilkins
December 13, 2021
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. ...
Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices: Challenges and Opportunities
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By Maria Barrados, Jeremy Lonsdale
September 30, 2021
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 ...