Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation: Increasing Relevance and Utility

ISBN-13: 9780367525156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 238 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Historians’ Debates on Time and the Nature of Historical Research  3. Counting the Long-Term in Evaluation  4. Contribution Analysis and the Long-term Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities  5. Using a Wide Lens to Take a Long view: How Integrating Systems Thinking into Evaluations Can Assist in Taking a Long-term Perspective  6. Reforms of Local Governments in Denmark  7. Reform Takes Time, but Politics won’t Wait – The Scope for Long-term Evaluation in the Education Sector  8. Looking from a Local Place to Take the Long View in Evaluation  9. Complex Development Aid Evaluations: The Aid Quality Evaluation Framework  10. Why Take a Long View? How Formal and Informal Rules Influence the Choice of Time Perspectives in International Development Evaluations  11. Long-Term Causal Inference  12. From Measuring Impact to Understanding Change  13. Concluding Remarks on Evaluating the Long-term: It Works but Can be Made to Work Better!