Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by
powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation
leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed
from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and
Nicoletta Stame have assembled an international line-up of
distinguished experts and emerging scholars to fill this void.
Examining evaluation from a critical - or evaluative - perspective,
each contribution in this book offers a systematic and critical
insight into the broader relationship between evaluation and
society. Divided into three parts, the various chapters ask
questions such as: What are the consequences of the
institutionalization of evaluation? Has the professionalization of
evaluators favored their action in the public interest? Is the
money spent on evaluation worth it? Is the market of evaluation
allowing real competition for the best services? The answers to
these questions demonstrate that the constitutive effects of the
social practice of evaluation can also be the suppression of other
forms of knowledge and the favoring of certain notions about
societal development and political and administrative processes.
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