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  • by Frans L. Leeuw
    £21.99 - 36.49

    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. This book includes many echoes of these debates. It offers a comprehensive treatise on evidence based policy.

  • by Brian Crozier
    £28.49

    Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects

  • - Seeking Truth or Power?
    by Jan-Eric Furubo
    £41.99

    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

  • - The Experience of Western Civilization
    by Irving Louis Horowitz
    £123.99

    Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression

  • - The Challenge for Evaluation
    by Bill Jenkins
    £41.99

    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

  • - Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
    by John McCormick
    £137.49

    The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive

  • by Kathryn E. Newcomer
    £38.49 - 123.99

  • - Beyond "doing no harm" to "tackling bad" and "doing good"
    by Nicoletta Stame, Rob D. (King's College London van den Berg & Penny Hawkins
    £123.99

    In Ethics for Evaluation 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.

  • - Private Actors, Evaluation, and Public Value
     
    £31.99

    Examines the contributions of non-public organisations, such as foundations, philanthropies, charities, non-governmental organisations, private businesses, and entrepreneurs to public goods and services. Doing Public Good? lays out key elements that need to be considered in evaluating the net results achieved by these private actors.

  • - Focusing on the Positives
    by Rudi Turksema
    £123.99

    Presents 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 attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use.

  • by Brian Crozier
    £80.49

    To understand local responsibilities and requirements, one must also understand the role that regional and national governmental agencies and administrations play. Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation is a landmark work in the area of the evaluation of intergovernmental policies, programs, and projects. Comparative and cross-national in its perspective, the material presented here not only provides a systematic theoretical and empirical treatment of intergovernmental evaluation, but does so with case material from seven nations and the European Union. No other such comparative work exists on this topic. Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation will be of interest to political theorists, policy-makers, and scholars and students of government and the evaluation community.

  • - Evaluation in the Public Sector
    by Jonathan D. Breul
    £123.99

    What is the role of evaluative information in the public arena? How, when, and under what circumstances does the actual use of evaluative information take place? By compiling and comparing international case studies, this book considers forces that make the information produced in evaluations increasing ""open to the public.

  • by Jonathan D. Breul & Gustav Jakob Petersson
    £123.99

    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.

  • - Managing Evaluative Systems
    by Nicoletta Stame
    £41.99 - 123.99

    Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence

  • - Attribution, Contribution and Beyond
    by Mita Marra
    £123.99

  • - Reflections on a Discipline in Disarray
     
    £123.99

    Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the worldAEs 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 evaluation contribute in times of turbulence?

  • - Seeking Truth or Power?
    by Jan-Eric Furubo
    £123.99

    Examining the degree to which evaluators seek power for their own interests, this book asks questions such as: Can we really trust evaluation to be a force for the good? To what degree can we talk about self-interest in evaluation, and is this self-interest something that contradicts other interests such as ""the benefit of society""?

  • - Seeking Confidence in Evaluating, Auditing, and Performance Reporting
    by John Winston Mayne
    £123.99

    Information--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management

  • - Future Directions from International Experience
    by John Winston Mayne
    £43.49

    Based on experiences derived from comparative analysis in different countries, this work explains why there is interest in performance monitoring in a given setting, why it has failed or created uncertainties, and identifies criteria for improving its design and use. It is aimed at public managers, government officials, economists, and others.

  • - Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
    by John McCormick
    £41.99

    Research on policy strategies, instruments, and styles incorporates a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools. This work proposes a framework for the field, one that clearly shows how public policy instruments may be classified, packaged, and chosen.

  • - Ethical and Methodological Challenges for Evaluators
     
    £123.99

  • - Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit
    by Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, Burt Perrin & Jeremy Lonsdale
    £31.99 - 123.99

    Looks at the role of evaluation and of audit as key elements in democratic accountability processes. This book includes case studies and is aimed at serious people who think about trends in the use of evaluation and audit in seeking to hold governments accountable for their actions and performance.

  • - Increasing Relevance and Utility
     
    £123.99

    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.

  • - Challenges and Opportunities
     
    £123.99

  • - The Experience of Western Civilization
    by Irving Louis Horowitz
    £41.99

    Presents, interprets and evaluates modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace. This book allows the reader to better understand what the "clash of civilizations" is about. It provides an outline of both European and American twentieth century social philosophies as they relate to the issue of war and peace.

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