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 issuesโdrawing 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.
Quality Matters: Seeking Confidence in Evaluating, Auditing, and Performance Reporting
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By John Winston Mayne
December 18, 2020
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 claim...
The Evaluation Enterprise: A Critical View
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By Jan-Eric Furubo, Nicoletta Stame
September 30, 2020
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 ...
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 ...
Evaluation: Seeking Truth or Power?
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By Jan-Eric Furubo
February 06, 2018
Evaluation has come of age. Today most social and political observers would have difficulty imagining a society where evaluation is not a fixture of daily life, from individual programs to local authorities to parliamentary committees. While university researchers, grant makers and public servants ...
Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation
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By Brian Crozier, Ray C. Rist
February 05, 2018
Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to ...
Making Accountability Work: Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit
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By Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Burt Perrin, Jeremy Lonsdale
November 21, 2017
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 ...
Collaboration in Public Services: The Challenge for Evaluation
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By Bill Jenkins
November 15, 2017
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 ...
Evaluation Cultures: Sense-Making in Complex Times
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By Jan-Eric Furubo, Jean-Claude Barbier
October 06, 2017
Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cultures, as a framework for understanding how culture influences the work of evaluation. Two main conclusions seem to emerge: first, that there exists no ...
Mind the Gap: Perspectives on Policy Evaluation and the Social Sciences
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By Phillip Allman, Jos Vaessen
October 06, 2017
Over the past twenty to thirty years, evaluation has become increasingly important to the field of public policy. The number of people involved and specializing in evaluation has also increased markedly. Evidence of this trend can be found in the International Atlas of Evaluation, the establishment...
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
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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 ...