1st Edition

Evaluation Seeking Truth or Power?

By Jan-Eric Furubo Copyright 2011
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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 may think there are too many types of evaluation, rankings and reviews, evaluation is nonetheless... Read more
1: Evaluation; I: “Do unto Ourselves....”; 2: Policy and Evaluation; 3: Sharing Power among Evaluation Players; 4: Taking One’s Own Medicine? The Self-Evaluation of the Danish Evaluation Institute; II: Game Frontiers: Political and Administrative Players; 5: PART; 6: Co-Ordination of Social Policies at the EU Level; 7: The Power of Illusion; 8: Peer Evaluation—The Powerful Peer?; III: To Have and to Hold ... Power; 9: Using Their Discretion; 10: Power Asymmetries and Performance Audits; Postscript

Biography

Jan-Eric Furubo