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Comparative Policy Evaluation eBook Series

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  • Evaluation and Turbulent Times

    Reflections on a Discipline in Disarray

    Edited by Jan-Eric Furubo, Ray C. Rist, Sandra Speer ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can evaluation contribute in times of turbulence?Examining the state of evaluation today, the volume's ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Evaluation Enterprise

    A Critical View

    Edited by Jan-Eric Furubo, Nicoletta Stame ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame have assembled an international line-up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars to fill this void.Examining ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Evaluation

    Seeking Truth or Power?

    by Jan-Eric Furubo ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Evaluation has come of age. Today most social and political observers would have difficulty imagining a society where evaluation is not a fixture of daily life, from individual programs to local authorities to parliamentary committees. While university researchers, grant makers and public servants may think there are too many types of evaluation, rankings and reviews, evaluation is nonetheless ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Changing Policies and Practices

    Edited by Linda Darling-Hammond, ANN LIEBERMAN ...
    Series series Teacher Quality and School Development
    Teachers are the most important single element of the education system but what does it take to create high quality teachers in today’s world?Around the world, countries are struggling to understand how to change their schools to meet global demands. International comparisons have shown that schools in Finland lead the league tables, but why is this, what new policies and practices in teacher ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Pursuing Horizontal Management

    The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa Diagnostic Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015). When embedded within a broader rural development framework, stronger coherence ... Read more

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  • Nonprofit Governance

    Innovative Perspectives and Approaches

    Edited by Chris Cornforth, William A. Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Corporate Governance
    The current fashion for rolling back the state has seen the nonprofit or third sector playing an increasing role in what were previously the heartlands of the public sphere. The growing significance of the sector and its increasing reliance on public funds mean it has also attracted increased scrutiny. From outside the sector concerns have been raised about the accountability and performance of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Public Policy Primer

    Managing the Policy Process

    by Xun Wu, M. Ramesh, Michael Howlett, Scott A. Fritzen ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Fully revised for a second edition, this essential guide provides a concise and accessible overview of the public policy process: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.The book provides an introduction to the key policy functions, the challenges they entail, and how the challenges may be addressed by policy actors. Written from a comparative ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Continuing Professional Development

    by Andrew L. Friedman ...
    Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the means by which the professions across the world ensure that their knowledge and skills remain up to date and relevant to changing needs and environments. CPD significantly contributes to the quality and reputation of the professions and therefore to the quality of national and international social life and economic well being.Starting with a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Research for Development

    A Practical Guide

    by Sophie Laws, Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Rachel Marcus ...
    Research for Development offers a comprehensive guide to commissioning, managing and undertaking research in development work. It serves both as a practical reference manual and an indispensable learning tool.Divided into three parts, the book provides a complete overview of the research process spanning:- the uses, planning and management of research- reviewing existing evidence- learning ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students

    Policies, Practice and Performance

    by Collective ...
    OECD has conducted policy reviews of migrant education in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden and has examined the migrant education experience in many countries. This book offers comparative data on access, participation and performance of immigrant students and their native peers and identifies a set of policy options based on solid evidence of what works. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Evaluation Cultures

    Sense-Making in Complex Times

    Edited by Jean-Claude Barbier, Penny Hawkins ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD