The Evaluation Enterprise: A Critical View

ISBN-13: 9780367666064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Jan-Eric Furubo; Nicoletta Stame

Opis

Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame have assembled an international line up of distinguished experts and em

Spis treści

Preface: The Evaluation Enterprise, Or Evaluation as An Enterprise [Nicoletta Stame And Jan-Eric Furubo]  Part 1: From Program Evaluation to The Evaluation Society  1. Understanding the Evaluation Enterprise [Jan-Eric Furubo]  2. The Politics / Administration Dichotomy and Evaluation [Nicoletta Stame]  3. The Skeptical Turn in Evaluation [Peter Dahler-Larsen]  Part 2: The Evaluation Enterprise  4. From Law to Reality – A Critical View on The Institutionalization of Evaluation in The Swiss Canton of Geneva’s Parliament [Katia Horber-Papazian and Christian Rosser]  5. Evaluation Overload and Evaluation Underload [Rolf Sandahl]  6. Accountability’s Two Solitudes and The Questions It Raises: Accountability to Whom? By Whom? And for What? [Burt Perrin]  7. Italian Evaluation Policy Between Centralization and Judicially-Enforced Accountability [Mita Marra]  Part 3: The Management of The Enterprise  8. Getting Value for Money? A Critical Analysis of The Costs and Benefits of Evaluation [Kim Forss]  9. The Journey to A Professional Designation for Evaluators in Canada [Marie-Helene Adrien And Lauren-Victoria Hellrung]  10. The Concerted Effort to Professionalize Evaluation Practice: Whither Are We Bound? [Thomas A. Schwandt]  11. The Commercial Side of Evaluation: Evaluation as An Industry and As a Professional Service [Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire, And Christina A. Christie]  Conclusion: Towards A Better Understanding of The Evaluation Enterprise [Jan-Eric Furubo And Nicoletta Stame]

O autorze

Jan-Eric Furubo has worked at different Swedish ministries, governmental agencies and The National Audit Office. He was co-editor of the International Atlas of Evaluation (2002), Evaluation – Seeking Truth or Power? (2011) and Evaluation in Turbulent Times (2013). He was the first president of the Swedish Evaluation Society and has had different roles within the European Evaluation Society.

Nicoletta Stame retired as Professor of Social Policy at "Sapienza" University, Rome. She was the first president of the Italian Evaluation Association and is a past president of the European Evaluation Society. She is associate editor of Evaluation. She is interested in the theory and methods of evaluation, on which she has published widely.