Product Description: Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible...read more

Product Description: In the first section of this book, four chapters explore how evaluation can influence and interact with the change process in policy and institutional development. Wijayatilake recalls a convincing and riveting story about how evaluation was introduced in Sri-Lanka and what kind of striking results could be achieved in a few years through a progressive pragmatic approach and strong leadership...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The "managing for results" movement that began in the early 1990s has now reached adolescence and is creating new challenges for government managers. After spending years creating planning and performance-measuring systems, managers and policy makers now need to focus on how to use performance information to make data-driven decisions...read more

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Product Description: A host of promising public sector reform efforts are underway throughout the world. In governments challenged by budget deficits and declining public trust, these reform efforts seek to improve policy decisions and public management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study provides an analytic framework---a theory of knowledge than identifies the kinds of structures and processes required for directing human action and the criteria for evaluating them. Eugene Meehan applies his theories empirically to the real world and provides normative approaches for his generalizations about governmental and individual policies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries - Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland - shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This easy-to-use book should be useful to managers at all levels of government. It gives practical guidance on how to resolve the dilemma every public manager faces-between the constant pressure to improve program efficiency and effectiveness, on the one hand, and the risk of wasting taxpayers' money on new ways of doing things that end up costing more than they save, on the other...read more

Hardcover with glossy dust jacket. 1989 216p. 9.50x6.25x1.00. HOW TO PLAN AND CONDUCT QUICK, EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE EVALUATIONS OF PUBLIC AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS - AND SO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY, STREAMLINE OPERATIONS, AND PROMOTE HIGH-QUALITY MANAGEMENT.

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