Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new
notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this
debate among evaluators on how evaluations are used has been
essentially a closed one--evaluators talking only among themselves.
The debate has gone on seemingly oblivious to fundamental changes
in the intellectual landscape of public management, organizational
theory, information technology, and knowledge management. New
realities demand a different approach toward evaluation.
The current era is characterized by the emergence of an
increasingly global set of pressures for governments to perform
effectively, not just efficiently, and to demonstrate that their
performance is producing desired results. Information technology
allows enormous quantities of information to be stored, sorted,
analyzed, and made available at little or no cost. The result for
those in the evaluation community is that, while individual
evaluations are still conducted and reported upon, they are a
rapidly diminishing source of information.
In the new environment, ever accelerating political and
organizational demands and expectations are reframing thinking
about the definition of what, fundamentally, constitutes evaluation
and what we understand as its applications. In this twelfth volume
in the Comparative Policy Evaluation series, authors from fourteen
nations address these issues from multiple vantage points. From
Studies to Streams is an essential tool for policymakers,
government officials, and scholars interested in the contemporary
status of evaluation.
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