Public Policy and Program Evaluation - Rilegato

Vedung, Evert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1560002999 ISBN 13: 9781560002994

Casa editrice: Transaction Pub, 1997

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Evert Vedung is professor of political science in Uppsala University's Institute for Housing Research (Gavle) and Department of Government (Uppsala), Sweden, and associate professor of public administration in the Department of Public Administration. Abo Academy University, Finland.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Transaction Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1560002999
• ISBN 13: 9781560002994
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336