From studies to streams : managing evaluative systems / edited by Ray C. Rist & Nicoletta Stame.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rist, Ray C.

Stame, Nicoletta.

Series:

Comparative policy evaluation series ; v. 12.

Comparative policy evaluation series ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Evaluation.

Policy sciences.

Administrative agencies--Evaluation.

Administrative agencies.

Public administration--Evaluation.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

xxi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: Streams of Evaluative Knowledge / Nicoletta Stame vii

Part 1 Channelled Streams of Evaluative Knowledge

1 The "E" in Monitoring and Evaluation-Using Evaluative Knowledge to Support a Results-Based Management System / Ray C. Rist 3

2 How Evaluation Can Help Make Knowledge Management Real / Burt Perrin 23

Part 2 Information Systems at Work for Evaluation

3 Management of Evaluative Knowledge in National Health: Some Comparative Observations / Markus Spinatsch 49

4 Organizing Knowledge: Evidence and the Construction of Evaluative Information Systems / Peter Dahler-Larsen 65

5 Managing Evaluations in the Netherlands and Types of Knowledge / Frans L. Leeuw 81

6 Implementing Results-Based Management / Per Oyvind Bastoe 97

Part 3 Thematic Evaluations and Their Uses

7 Complex Policies and Evaluative Streams of Knowledge / Nicoletta Stame 113

8 Evaluating Knowledge about the Instruments of Government: The Canadian Federal Experience / Pearl Eliadis, Donald Lemaire 129

9 Why Evaluations Sometimes Can't be Used-and Why They Shouldn't / Jan-Eric Furubo 147

Part 4 Strategic Budgeting and Streams of Knowledge

10 Evaluation Use and Information Communication Technology: What is the Real Issue? / Yoon-Shik Lee 169

11 Evaluative Information in the Norwegian Ministries / Marit Stadler Waerness, Ragnhild Ovrelid 187

12 Evaluation Knowledge for Strategic Budgeting / Xavier Ballart, Eduardo Zapico 215

Part 5 Multi-Study Evaluation and the Learning Organization

13 Evaluation, Knowledge Management, and Learning: Caught between Order and Disorder / Kim Forss, Claus C. Rebien 235

14 Patterns of Evaluative Knowledge Creation and Utilization within the World Bank / Mita Marra 251

Theory of Knowledge and Use of Evaluation: Popper's Relevance for the Concept of Streams of Evaluation Knowledge / Olaf Rieper 271

Conclusion: A Brief Critique / Ray C. Rist 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765802872

OCLC:

58052166