The paper "Evaluating rural development: a critical investigation of techniques and objectives used to assess the LEADER program of the EU in Hungary" investigates the evaluation of endogenous development from a methodological perspective both in theory and practice in the context of the LEADER program. It argues that the LEADER approach consists of a handful of features that cannot be evaluated entirely by quantitative measures. Although the use of exogenous methods is justified for the sake of information needs of certain stakeholders, endogenous evaluation incorporating qualitative...