Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century - Deirdre Niamh Duffy

Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century

Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities
Buch | Hardcover
161 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-54512-1 (ISBN)
58,80 inkl. MwSt
This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative of evidence-based policy-making, arguing instead that evaluation research is used to discipline and control. At the same time, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, this book argues that evaluation can be reclaimed and facilitate transformation. In bringing these theoretically rich discussions to bear on the domain of contemporary evaluation, the author provokes an alternative reading of the relationship between research and governing, emphasising how knowledge production has historically been manipulated by elites towards their own political ends. As the debate around elite’s use of research expands globally, this book is a nuanced interjection into both established evidence-based policy and emergent narratives of ‘post-truth’. Challenging and provocative, this innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of social and public policy, and governance and public management.

Deirdre Niamh Duffy is Senior Lecturer in Childhood, Youth Studies and Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Preface: Evaluation and governing in two quotes or When the arithmetician met the curator.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Understanding Evaluation in the UK.- Chapter 3: Disciplinary Measures.- Chapter 4: Transformative Possibilities.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
Zusatzinfo XV, 161 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte Austerity • Deleuze • Evaluation • Evidence-Based Policy • Foucault • Genealogy • Neoliberalism • New Public Management • post-truth • UK policy-making • Youth Work
ISBN-10 1-137-54512-7 / 1137545127
ISBN-13 978-1-137-54512-1 / 9781137545121
Zustand Neuware
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