The Politics of program evaluation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Palumbo, Dennis J., 1929-2006
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1987]
Series:Sage yearbooks in politics and public policy ; v. 15.
Subjects:
Table of 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.