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24 paź 2023 · Learn about the origins and evolution of public policy evaluation from ancient times to the modern era. This chapter by Michael Quinn Patton explores the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of policy evaluation as a transdisciplinary, global profession.
9 maj 2023 · Policy evaluation is traditionally presented as the final step in a policy cycle. According to the sequential approach to public policy, evaluation allows to look back at the social problem that led to the development and implementation of a public intervention. The purpose of evaluation is to provide information on how public programs or ...
This book is part of a project by LIEPP, a laboratory for interdisciplinary evaluation of public policies, to bridge the gap between research and evaluation. It presents the diversity of methods and approaches in evaluation, from quantitative to qualitative, from experimental to participatory, and from theory-based to mixed methods.
Evaluation is both the stage of the policy process answering this question and a subfield of policy analysis dealing with the scientific methods and approaches for evaluating public policies. This chapter discusses what good evaluation entails, and which challenges policy-makers face when designing policy evaluations in a context where the ...
21 maj 2022 · A very important research question for public policy analysis is how decision-makers learn in the policy process. In the literature, scholars have identified policy evaluations as a source of information that provides decision-makers with material to learn about how to modify legislations Footnote 1 (Head, 2016; Pattyn et al., 2018; Stephenson et al., 2019).
27 mar 2021 · Evaluation of public policies is not easy both technically and institutionally. There are several technical challenges for the evaluator to overcome: the correlation between a policy and its results is not always causal, and the evaluator needs to take into account factors such as reverse causality Footnote 1 and policy interactions with many other actors.
1 sty 2011 · This Handbook deals with many aspects of public policy evaluation including methods, examples, studies, professionalism, perspectives, concepts, trends, substance, theory, applications, dispute resolution, interdisciplinary interaction and bibliographies. A rich variety of insights and alternative perspectives on systematic policy evaluation ...
