The Politics of Evaluation: Participation and Policy Implementation

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Edited by David Taylor, Susan Balloch

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: January 2022
Print publication year:: 2005
Online ISBN:: 9781847421210
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847421210

Subjects:: Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations

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The widespread popularity of evaluation is based on the need to provide evidence of the effectiveness of policies and programmes. This book sees evaluation as an inherently political activity, and, using a wide range of examples, it relates practical issues in evaluation design to their political contexts.

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Participation and Policy Implementation

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of tables, figures and boxes
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors
pp vii-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction - The politics of evaluation: an overview
pp 1-18

Part One - Governance and evaluation
pp 19-20

one - Below decks on the youth justice flagship: the politics of evaluation
pp 21-40

two - Urban regeneration: who defines the indicators?
pp 41-56

three - Reaching for the stars: the performance assessment framework for social services
pp 57-74

Part Two - Participation and evaluation
pp 75-76

four - Service-user involvement in evaluation and research: issues, dilemmas and destinations
pp 77-86

five - Best Value but not best interests: can service users instruct mental health advocates?
pp 87-96

six - New Deal for Communities as a participatory public policy: the challenges for evaluation
pp 97-108

seven - Discovery through dialogue and appreciative inquiry: a participative evaluation framework for project development
pp 109-118

eight - Evaluating projects aimed at supporting the parents of young people: “I didn’t learn anything new, but ...”
pp 119-132

Part Three - Partnerships and evaluation
pp 133-134

nine - Evaluating interagency working in health and social care: politics, policies and outcomes for service users
pp 135-152

ten - Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures
pp 153-174

eleven - Evaluating a partnership approach to supporting people into employment
pp 175-186

Part Four - Learning from evaluation
pp 187-188

twelve - Evaluation and the New Deal for Communities: learning what for whom?
pp 189-204

thirteen - Community-led regeneration: learning loops or reinvented wheels?
pp 205-222

fourteen - Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work?
pp 223-238

fifteen - Learning the art of evaluation: presume the presence of politics
pp 239-248

Conclusion - What the politics of evaluation implies
pp 249-252

Index
pp 253-261

Also available from The Policy Press
pp 262-264

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