The Politics of program evaluation /
by Palumbo, Dennis J. (Dennis James).
Material type: BookSeries: Sage yearbooks in politics and public policy ; v. 15.Publisher: Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1987Description: 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0803927363; 0803927371.Subject(s): Policy sciences | Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Contents:
The political context: Politics and evaluation /Dennis J. Palumbo. Where politics and evaluation research meet / Carol H. Weiss -- The policy cycle: Linking program evaluation to user needs / Eleanor Chelimsky. Evaluation's political inherency / Michael Quinn Patton. What should evaluation mean to implementation? / Angela Browne and Aaron Wildavsky. Policy termination as a political phenomenon / Peter DeLeon -- Politics and research methods: The countenances of fourth-generation evaluation / Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln. The influence of theory on what we see / Lawrence A. Scaff and Helen M. Ingram. The political uses of evaluation research / Susan J. Tolchin. The politics of meaning and policy inquiry /Rita Mae Kelly.
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