Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation: Increasing Relevance and Utility

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Taylor & francis

Long Term Perspectives in Evaluation: Increasing Relevance and Utility : Routledge : 9780367525149 : 0367525143 : 09 Sep 2020 : "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. To get there, it is necessary to understand the decision-making context of evaluations and study the obstacles and the resistance towards long-term perspectives - as knowledge of that will lay the ground for more effective advocacy. The book is divided into three parts: Part One examinesdifferent aspects of methodology and methods. In Part Two, authors present case studies of long-term evaluations, examine their own experiences of such evaluations and discuss difficulties, challenges, and lessons learned. Cases discussed include: education sector reforms in Sweden, local governance reforms in Denmark, policy interventions in southern Italy and

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