Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation (eBook, ePUB)

Increasing Relevance and Utility
Redaktion: Forss, Kim; McGillivray, Mark; Lindkvist, Ida

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation is the first book to advocate the virtues of a long-term perspective for policy evaluation as well as to show how evaluations can take a longer time perspective than they usually do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000167931
• Artikelnr.: 59898438

Autorenporträt

Kim Forss holds a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics. His research has concerned comparative studies of evaluation, the design of inquiring systems and organizational learning, utilization of results, as well as process use of evaluation. He works as an independent researcher out of his firm Andante - tools for thinking AB. Ida Lindkvist is Senior Advisor at the Evaluation Department in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bergen and her research interest includes the political economy of evaluation and the practice of results based management and results-based financing in aid. Mark McGillivray is Research Professor of International Development at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia. His previous positions include Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development and Deputy Director of the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research. Mark's research interests include aid effectiveness and allocation and complex international development evaluations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Historians' Debates on Time and the Nature of Historical
Research 3. Counting the Long-Term in Evaluation 4. Contribution Analysis
and the Long-term Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities 5. Using a Wide
Lens to Take a Long view: How Integrating Systems Thinking into Evaluations
Can Assist in Taking a Long-term Perspective 6. Reforms of Local
Governments in Denmark 7. Reform Takes Time, but Politics won't Wait - The
Scope for Long-term Evaluation in the Education Sector 8. Looking from a
Local Place to Take the Long View in Evaluation 9. Complex Development Aid
Evaluations: The Aid Quality Evaluation Framework 10. Why Take a Long View?
How Formal and Informal Rules Influence the Choice of Time Perspectives in
International Development Evaluations 11. Long-Term Causal Inference
12. From Measuring Impact to Understanding Change 13. Concluding Remarks on
Evaluating the Long-term: It Works but Can be Made to Work Better!