Ray Rist

Program Evaluation and the Management of Government

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book appears at an opportune time in the history of evaluation. Its detailed and up-to-date account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries-Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland-shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781138530898
• ISBN-10: 1138530891
• Artikelnr.: 75425009

Autorenporträt

Ray C. Rist is Director of Operations for the General Government Division, United States General Accounting Office. Dr. Rist earned his Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology in 1970 from Washington University (St. Louis). His list of book and article publications is extensive.

Inhaltsangabe

Managing of Evaluations or Managing by Evaluations: Choices and
Consequences II Countries in the First Wave of Evaluation Development 1.
Policy and Program Evaluation in the Government of Canada 2. Program
Evaluation in the Federal Republic of Germany3. Policy Evaluation in
British Government: From Idealism to Realism? 4. The Organization and
Function of Evaluation in the United States: A Federal Overview III
Countries in the Second Wave of Evaluation Development 5. Evaluation in
Denmark: The State of the Art 6. Policy Evaluation in the Netherlands:
Institutional Context and State of Affairs 7. Institutional Aspects of
Evaluation in Norway 8. Switzerland: Moving towards Evaluation IV Overview
and Synthesis9. Genesis and Structure of Evaluation Efforts in Comparative
Perspective