Overview
- Enables an interdisciplinary audience to better understand the institutionalisation of evaluation in different national states as well as in different sectors
- An invaluable guide for staff commissioning evaluations or undertaking research on evaluations in international organisations, such as UN, OECD etc
- Accessibly written for politicians and administrative staff from political parties, administrations and public authorities
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Western Europe
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Keywords
- Evaluation
- Institutionalisation
- Europe
- pragmatism
- complexity
- evidence-informed decision making
- institutions
- evaluation policy
- evaluation capacity building
- government learning
- public performance
- pluralism
- participation
- evaluation regulations
- heterogeneity
- professionalistion
- bureaucratisation
- supply and demand
- public administration
- university evaluation education
About this book
Reviews
“Readers interested in organizational, institutional and societal aspects of the Evaluation Business will know much more after… reading this book.” (Frans L. Leeuw, Zeitschrift für Evaluation, 2021)
“The book offers a wealth of information and is a valuable contribution to the body of knowledge on evaluation’s institutionalization.” (Marlène Laeubli Loud, American Journal of Evaluation, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Wolfgang Meyer is Assistant Professor at Saarland University, Germany and Adjunct Professor at Uganda Technology and Management University, Kampala, Uganda. He is Vice-Director of the Centre for Evaluation (CEval), Founding Member of the German Evaluation Society (DeGEval), Sociologist with a Focus on Empirical Methodology and Evaluation Specialist in the Field of Environment, Labour Market and Regional Development.
Lena Taube was previously a research associate at the Center for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University, Germany, where she focused on research regarding the institutionalisation of evaluation as a means to good governance. She is currently working at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) engaged with evaluating human rights in German development aid.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in Europe
Editors: Reinhard Stockmann, Wolfgang Meyer, Lena Taube
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32284-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32283-0Published: 11 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32286-1Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32284-7Published: 10 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 522
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, European Politics, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Governance and Government