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Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
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Open to the Public grows out of concern with evaluation in the public arena and the struggle to understand how best to use the information it generates. Many concepts and models of evaluation, how to undertake it, and how to make it more useful, were developed before government performance became of so much interest to the public. In fact, it is arguable that recent changes in the forms, shapes,... Read more
1: Introduction: Evaluation in the Public Arena; 1: Evaluation in the Media; 2: Evaluation and Political Communication in the French Public Employment Service; 3: Dissemination of Evaluation Reports in Newspapers: The Case of CEPP Evaluations in Geneva, Switzerland; 2: The Preparation and Presentation of Public Evaluation Data; 4: Community Perspectives on the Preparation and Reporting of Public Sector Performance Indicators; 5: Who Decides If and How Evaluative Information Reaches the Public Arena? The Case of School Performance Information in Ireland; 6: The Framing of Public Evaluation Data: Transparency and Openness in Danish Schools; 3: Evaluation Decisions and the Political Agenda; 7: Using Evaluative Knowledge for Policy Design: A Case Study of the Swiss Addiction Policy; 8: The Growing Use of Performance Information in the Budget Process in the United States The Convergence of Performance Budgeting and the Digital Transformation; 4: Citizen Participation; 9: Creating Public Arenas for Evaluative Information on the Internet: Experience from E-democracy in Local Governments; 10: Does Citizen Participation in the Evaluation Processes Make Any Difference? With Special Reference to the Evaluation of Government Policies and Programs in the Korean Government; 11: Evaluation and Exclusion from the Public Arena: The Case of the British Deaf Community; 12: Calling Citizens to Deliberate on Disputed Policy Issues: Implications for Evaluations; 13: Afterword: Bringing Evaluation into Public Life—or Bringing Public Life into Evaluation: Making Sense of this new Era
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Jonathan D. Breul
