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Evaluation Cultures Sense-Making in Complex Times
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Routledge
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Routledge
262 Pages
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Routledge
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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 single, uniform, and homogenous national evaluation culture; second, that the idea of a unified... Read more
Introduction; The Culture of Evaluation in Italy; Riding the Celtic Tiger: Forces Shaping Evaluation Culture in Ireland in Good Times and Bad; Sectoral Evaluation Cultures: A Comparison of the Education and Labor Market Sectors in Germany; Is Evaluation Culture Shaped by the Swiss Political System and Multiculturalism?; Independence in Evaluation and the Role of Culture; Clinical and Managerial Cultures of Evaluative Activity in the Provision of Acute Health Care; Cultures of Ombudsman and Audit Institutions: Effects on Their Evaluative Activities; Four Organizations—Four Evaluation Cultures; Cultural Dimensions of the African Evaluation Guidelines; Conclusion: Universal, Common, Diverse, and Certainly Not Uniform, Evaluation Culture
Biography
Jean-Claude Barbier
