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.
Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector: Future Directions from International Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By John Winston Mayne, Eduardo Zapico-Goñi
February 15, 2007
A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management. Along the way, program efficiency and effectiveness help rebuild ...
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
1st Edition
By Ray Rist
August 31, 2003
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 ...
Budgeting, Auditing, and Evaluation: Functions and Integration in Seven Governments
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Gray, Bill Jenkins, Bob Segsworth
February 28, 2000
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 ...
Can Governments Learn?: Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation and Organizational Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Frans L. Leeuw, Ray C. Rist, Richard C. Sonnichsen
October 31, 1999
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 ...
Program Evaluation and the Management of Government
1st Edition
By Ray Rist
July 31, 1999
This text is an account of the organization and use of government programme evaluation in the UK, Canada, Germany, USA, Denmark, Holland, Norway and Switzerland. Focusing on the national or federal level, it presents a systematic and comparative viewpoint....