Evaluation Cultures: Sense-Making in Complex Times (Comparative Policy Evaluation, 19, Band 19) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141284942X ISBN 13: 9781412849425

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc, 2012

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Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cultures, as a framework for understanding how culture influences the work of evaluation. Two main conclusions seem to emerge: first, that there exists no single, uniform, and homogenous national evaluation culture; second, that the idea of a unified transnational culture of evaluation is an illusion.The evaluation community includes a diverse group of professionals; a diversity that is not just represented in national or ethnic culture but also in academic backgrounds, public and private sector allegiances, and personal character. The contributors to this book represent, in part, this diversity by reflecting a range of views.Evaluation Cultures draws upon the experience of senior evaluation practitioners, who share their reflections on their practice and experience, in order to put forth challenges to purely academic analysis. Evaluation Cultures presents a consistent, if not exhaustive, attempt to give analytical and empirical sense to all of the cultures of the evaluation community.

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Jean-Claude Barbier

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• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 141284942X
• ISBN 13: 9781412849425
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
• Herausgeber: Barbier Jean-claude, Hawkins Penny
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