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.
Theories of Change in Reality: Strengths, Limitations and Future Directions
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By Andrew Koleros, Marie-Hélène Adrien, Tony Tyrrell
October 01, 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 Kristine 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 ...
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 ...
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
September 25, 2024
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 ...
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 ...
Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation
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By Gustav Jakob Petersson, Jonathan D. Breul
February 19, 2018
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 ...
The Evidence Book
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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 ...