Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0687-1 (ISBN)
Written from a political science perspective, Public Policy and Program Evaluation provides an overview of the possibilities and limits of public sector evaluation. Evert Vedung examines evaluation as a mechanism for monitoring, systematizing, and grading government activities and their results so that public officials, in their future-oriented work, will be able to act as responsibly, creatively, and efficiently as possible. Topics discussed include: "Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management"; "Models of Evaluation"; "Internal or External Evaluation"; "Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation"; "Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory"; "The Eight-Problems Approach to Evaluation"; and "Uses and Users of Evaluation."
All evaluation rests upon the idea that perceptions, opinions, intentions, judgments—in short, everything concerned with the world of human consciousness—play such interesting roles in political and administrative action that their functions are worth investigating. Through experience, humans may learn from past actions. The interventions of the modern state are so extensive, their execution so complicated, and their potential consequences so far-reaching that science and social research are needed to monitor operations and establish impacts. As an excellent Introduction to the field of policy evaluation, Public Policy and Program Evaluation will be a valuable resource for students of public administration, public policy, political science, education, and sociology.
Evert Vedung
List of Figures, Preface to the English Edition, Preface to the First Swedish Edition, 1. Evaluation: A Semantic Magnet, 2. Evaluation Between Intervention and Feedback, 3. Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management, 4. Models of Evaluation, 5. The Eight Problems Approach to Evaluation, 6. Evaluation Purposes, 7. Internal or External Evaluation, 8. Characterizing the Public Intervention, 9. Monitoring, 10. Pre-Evaluation, 11. Impact Assessment as Tryout and Social Experimentation, 12. Generic, Reflexive, Statistical, and Shadow Controls, 13. Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory, 14. Merit Criteria and Performance Standards, 15. Uses and Utility of Evaluation, Glossary of Key Concepts in Evaluation, References, Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2000 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Public Policy and Program Evaluation |
Verlagsort | Somerset |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 540 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7658-0687-8 / 0765806878 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7658-0687-1 / 9780765806871 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich