What is it about?
Defines the minimal meaning of the word evaluation. Outlines the various models of evaluation: goal-achievement model, side-effect model , client-oriented model, stakeholder model, economic models and professional models.
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Why is it important?
Findings from evaluative activities provide useful information to various decision-makers that may use it för decisions to make changes in the interventions and their implementation. The role of evaluation in government is to provide information that may ameliorate decision-making in the public sector
Perspectives
The takes a holistic view of evaluation. There is not one and only one way of doing evaluation. There are many possible ways of doing evaluation. The book aims to provide a very broad view of the major possibilities which can be seen from the fact that many models are presented. The book also connects evaluation with democracy. Some evaluation connect to representative democracy, the big democracy in which the demos, the people, vote to elect representative to make decisions for them Evaluation also connects to direct democracy, i e decision-making where the whole demos,all citizens (not representatives of the citizens) are involved in major decisions. Finally evaluation may also make sense as a form of deliberative democracy, democracy by discussion and dialogue between evaluators and evaluatees
Emeritus Professor Evert Vedung
Uppsala Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Public Policy and Program Evaluation, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315127767.
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