Public Policy and Program EvaluationTransaction Publishers - 336 pages Evaluation is the process of distinguishing the worthwhile from the worthless, the precious from the useless: evaluation implies looking backward in order to be able to steer forward better. Written from a political science perspective, Public Policy and Program Evaluation provides an overview of the possibilities and limits of public sector evaluation. |
Contents
A Semantic Magnet | 1 |
1 The Simple System Model | 4 |
Evaluation Between Intervention and Feedback | 15 |
1 Evaluation According to the Spinning Top Model | 16 |
Evaluation of Evaluation | 22 |
Evaluation Rationality and Theories of Public Management | 25 |
2 Management by Objectives | 29 |
Models of Evaluation | 35 |
Monitoring | 137 |
1 The Fuel Declarations Envisioned | 140 |
2 Prerequisites to be Fulfilled if the Fuel | 146 |
PreEvaluation | 157 |
Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation | 165 |
1 The Impact Problem in Counterfactual Terms | 167 |
4 The Rossi and Freeman Algorithm | 173 |
7 Experiment Without Formal Preprogram | 180 |
1 Models of Evaluation | 36 |
3 SideEffects Evaluation | 50 |
5 SideEffects Evaluation with Specified | 58 |
The Generic | 64 |
8 Stakeholders in Public Interventions | 71 |
9 Productivity | 84 |
The Eight Problems Approach to Evaluation | 93 |
Evaluation Purposes | 101 |
1 Dual Loyalties in the Chain of Public | 107 |
Internal or External Evaluation | 115 |
1 External and Internal Evaluation | 116 |
Characterizing the Public Intervention | 121 |
Regulations | 123 |
2 Prohibitions Ordered According | 130 |
Generic Reflexive Statistical and Shadow Controls | 195 |
1 Two Reflexive Controls Designs | 199 |
Data Sources | 206 |
Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory | 209 |
1 Explanatory Factors in Process Evaluation | 212 |
2 Policy Obscurity | 220 |
Merit Criteria and Performance Standards | 247 |
1 Criteria of Merit for Effectiveness Evaluation | 251 |
2 Four Important Criteria of Merit in Program | 258 |
Uses and Utility of Evaluation | 265 |
1 The Engineering Model for Utilization | 268 |
Glossary of Key Concepts in Evaluation | 291 |
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