This handbook deals with many aspects of public policy evaluation: including methods; examples; professionalism studies; perspectives; concepts; substance; theory applications; dispute resolution; interdisciplinary interaction.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process.
This handbook is the first guide to environmental policy evaluation in practice.
First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Liberals, or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations ...
This book also explores the interplay between empirical and normative analysis, a crucial issue running through contemporary debates.
The Handbook has been thoroughly revised. Many new chapters have been prepared for this edition, including chapters on logic modeling and on evaluation applications for small nonprofit organizations.
... and is the author of Scenes, Semiotics and the New Real: Exploring the Value of Originality and Difference (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Michael Calnan is Professor of Medical Sociology, SSPSSR (Social Policy, Sociology and Social ...
This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science.
All public policies, according to Lowi, are coercive because they seek to alter individual and societal conduct. There are different ways of controlling behavior, however, and they have different implications both for the way the policy ...
In 2015, Kearney and Levine sought to evaluate the longterm impacts of the program in a retrospective evaluation carried out in the United States. Taking advantage of limitations in television broadcasting technology in the early years ...
In this comprehensive handbook, an examination of the complexities of contemporary evaluation contributes to the ongoing dialogue that arises in professional efforts to evaluate people-related programs, policies, and practices.