The Politics of program evaluation
By: Dennis J. Palumbo, editor.
Contributors: Palumbo, Dennis James, 1929-
Series: Sage yearbooks in politics and public policy ;; v. 15
Publisher: Sage Publications; SAGE Publications, Inc; Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Newbury Park, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Policy sciences.; Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The political context: Politics and evaluation / Dennis J. Palumbo. Where politics and evaluation research meet / Carol H. Weiss; title: 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; title: 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.