Long term perspectives in evaluation : increasing relevance and utility / edited by Kim Forss, Ida Lindkvist and Mark McGillivray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forss, Kim, editor.

Lindkvist, Ida, editor.

McGillivray, Mark, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Comparative policy evaluation series

Comparative policy evaluation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Evaluation.

Policy sciences.

Evaluation research (Social action programs).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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.

Contents:

Foreword / Patricia Rogers

Introduction / Kim Forss and Ida Lindkvist

Historians' debates on time and the nature of historical research / Charlotta Forss

Counting the long-term in evaluation / Jens Andersson

Contribution analysis and the long-term perspective : challenges and opportunities / John Mayne

Using a wide lens to take a long view : how integrating systems thinking into evaluations can assist in taking a long-term perspective / Andrew Koleros

Reforms of local governments in Denmark / Olaf Rieper

Reform takes time, but politics won't wait : the scope for long-term evaluation in the education sector / Rolf Sandahl and Gustav Jakob Petersson

Looking from a local place to take the long view in evaluation / Laura Tagle

Complex development aid evaluations : the aid quality evaluation framework / Mark McGillivray and David Carpenter

Why take a long view? : how formal and informal rules influence the choice of time perspectives in international development evaluations / Alison Pollard and Ida Lindkvist

Long-term causal inference / Markus Palenberg

From measuring impact to understanding change / Kim Forss

Concluding remarks on evaluating the long-term : it works but can be made to work better! / Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss & Mark McGillivray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Long term perspectives in evaluation

ISBN:

9781000167931

1000167933

9781003058250

1003058256

Publisher Number:

40030284667

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.