Evaluation Des Politiques Scientifiques Et Technologiques
Author: Jon Alexander
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9782763772073
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Policy Analysis in France
Author: Charlotte Halpern
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2018-01-03
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1447324218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding policy analysis in France requires first a thorough exploration of the distinction usually made in French academic and practitioner debates between policy studies and policy analysis--essentially the difference between studies of policy and studies designed for the use of policy. This book begins there, then delves into questions of how and by whom knowledge of policies is produced within and outside the French state, showing that while the tension between the two types of study is real, the continued exchange of ideas between them has led to an enrichment of both spheres. The book thus lays the foundation for a more systematic understanding of policy analysis in France.
Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Author: Evert Vedung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 1351495607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluation is a controversial and little-understood strategy of public governance, control, and decision making. As early as classical antiquity, scholars were summoned to court to counsel kings. Public policy and program evaluation is a recent addition to the great chain of attempts to use the brainpower of scholars and scientists to further the interests of the state. Evaluation scholars are asked to provide retrospective assessments of the implementation, output, and outcome of government measures in order to effect deeper understanding and well-grounded decisions on the part of those in charge of government operations. Evaluation is the process of distinguishing the worthwhile from the worthless, the precious from the useless; evaluation implies looking backward in order to be able to steer forward better. Written from a political science perspective, Public Policy and Program Evaluation provides an overview of the possibilities and limits of public sector evaluation. Evert Vedung examines evaluation as a mechanism for monitoring, systematizing, and grading government activities and their results so that public officials, in their future-oriented work, will be able to act as responsibly, creatively, and efficiently as possible. Topics discussed include: "Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management"; "Models of Evaluation"; "Internal or External Evaluation"; "Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation"; "Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory"; "The Eight-Problems Approach to Evaluation"; and "Uses and Users of Evaluation." All evaluation rests upon the idea that perceptions, opinions, intentions, judgments—in short, everything concerned with the world of human consciousness—play such interesting roles in political and administrative action that their functions are worth investigating. Through experience, humans may learn from past actions. The interventions of the modern state are so extensive, their execu
Encyclopedia of Evaluation
Author: Sandra Mathison
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780761926092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 'Encyclopedia of Evaluation' recognises the growth of evaluation around the world & highlights all the major contributions to the field. There are over 400 entries organised alphabetically.
Quality Matters
Author: John Winston Mayne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-12
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1351322427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformation--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, often with some justification, to be more open and transparent than ever before. But what if the life-blood is contaminated, or the fuel polluted? Then the body politic sickens and the engine of public management runs rough. It is the vital issue of the quality of the information we receive that this book addresses. Quality Matters compares approaches across different jurisdictional settings and across three different types of information evaluation. The chapters describe and analyze quality assurance in a number of countries and within a variety of international organizations. These have been selected either because they are widely considered to be leaders in evaluating information or because they have experience with assuring quality information that can instruct others. Contributors are from Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and the World Bank. This pioneering study analyzes practices for assuring the quality of evaluation, performance auditing, and reporting in the face of political, organizational, and technical obstacles. A final chapter addresses the extent to which quality assurance systems become bothersome rituals or remain meaningful mechanisms to ensure quality control. This well-structured volume will be of particular interest to policymakers and adds much to the literature on program evaluation and performance auditing.
The Evaluation Enterprise
Author: Jan-Eric Furubo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0429893027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, 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 international line-up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars to fill this void. Examining evaluation from a critical – or evaluative – perspective, each contribution in this book offers a systematic and critical insight into the broader relationship between evaluation and society. Divided into three parts, the various chapters ask questions such as: What are the consequences of the institutionalization of evaluation? Has the professionalization of evaluators favored their action in the public interest? Is the money spent on evaluation worth it? Is the market of evaluation allowing real competition for the best services? The answers to these questions demonstrate that the constitutive effects of the social practice of evaluation can also be the suppression of other forms of knowledge and the favoring of certain notions about societal development and political and administrative processes.
Faith-Based Schools in Latin America
Author: Juan Carlos Parra Osorio
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0821395866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, that includes evaluations of academic performance and other management aspects and pedagogical practices of Fe y Alegr a schools, is a selection of contributions made at the international workshop Fe y Alegr a: Expanding the Quality Education Opportunities in Latin America
Building Professionals Facing the Energy Efficiency Challenge
Author: Géraldine Molina
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-03-07
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1786301490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to deepen the knowledge of dynamic evolution of professional practices (recomposition of knowledge and know-how, inter-relations, strategic positioning) taking place at the time of the injunction to energy efficiency in the design field, construction and management of real estate. From their experience feedback, the challenge of this book is to question the logic of innovation, to enlighten the dynamic learning and renewal of professional skills.
The Worth of the Social Economy
Author: Marie J. Bouchard
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789052015804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book fills a gap in the literature about the social economy. of today must cater and for which questions of evaluation appear to be the most telling. --
