Program Evaluation and the Management of Government: Patterns and Prospects Across Eight Nations

ISBN-13: 9780765806000 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 193 str.

Ray C. Rist

Opis

This text is an account of the organization and use of government programme evaluation in the UK, Canada, Germany, USA, Denmark, Holland, Norway and Switzerland. Focusing on the national or federal level, it presents a systematic and comparative viewpoint.

Spis treści

Managing of Evaluations or Managing by Evaluations: Choices and Consequences II Countries in the First Wave of Evaluation Development 1. Policy and Program Evaluation in the Government of Canada 2. Program Evaluation in the Federal Republic of Germany3. Policy Evaluation in British Government: From Idealism to Realism? 4. The Organization and Function of Evaluation in the United States: A Federal Overview III Countries in the Second Wave of Evaluation Development 5. Evaluation in Denmark: The State of the Art 6. Policy Evaluation in the Netherlands: Institutional Context and State of Affairs 7. Institutional Aspects of Evaluation in Norway 8. Switzerland: Moving towards Evaluation IV Overview and Synthesis9. Genesis and Structure of Evaluation Efforts in Comparative Perspective

O autorze

Ray C. Rist is Director of Operations for the General Government Division, United States General Accounting Office. Dr. Rist earned his Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology in 1970 from Washington University (St. Louis). His list of book and article publications is extensive.