Advancing public policy evaluation : learning from international experiences

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INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF PROGRAM EVALUATION: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. Overview (J. Mayne). Institutionalizing Evaluation: International Perspectives (M.L. Bemelmans-Videc). Evaluation in National Governments. Institutionalizing Evaluations in France: Skating on Thin Ice? (J.-P. Nioche). Encouraging Evaluation in the Australian Budget Sector (S.T. Sedgwick). Institutionalizing Evaluation in Canada (G. Leclerc). Implementing Evaluation: Lessons from the UK (A. Gray, B. Jenkins). Five Observations on Evaluation in Sweden (E. Vedung). Evaluation in Organizations. Evaluation for Policy and Accountability at Employment and Immigration Canada (I. Midgley). Evaluation in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (R.C. Sonnichsen). THE CONDUCT OF EVALUATION IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS. Overview (J. Hudson). Evaluation in National Audit Offices. Evaluation at the Swedish National Audit Bureau (R. Sandahl). Policy Evaluation and The Netherlands Court of Audit (F.G. Kordes). Government-Wide Audits in The Netherlands: Evaluating Central Government Subsidies (F.L. Leeuw). Auditing Program Evaluation in Canada (M. Barrados). Program Evaluation in the United States General Accounting Office: Reflections on Question Formulation and Utilization (R.C. Rist). Evaluation in Policy Sectors. Evaluation of R & D in Sweden (M. Nyden). Evaluating Federal R & D in Canada (A.J. Barbarie). Incidence of Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Program Administration: A Case Study (M.T. Anguera-Argilaga). A Triangulated Case Method of Program Evaluation and Adjustment (M. van de Vall). A Model for Planning Evaluation Research (R. Fernandez-Ballesteros). Policy Evaluation and Government in The Netherlands: Meta Evaluation Research As One of the Solutions (A. Hoogerwerf). Program Performance Auditing, Efficiency Measurement and the Best Practice Frontier (W.A. Moesen). THE OUTCOMES OF EVALUATION. Overview (M.L. Bemelmans-Videc, R. Conner). Evaluation and its Use. The Importance of Organizational Structure in the Utilization of Evaluation Research (O. Rieper). Increasing the Utilization of Evaluation by Matching the Interests of the Principal and the Evaluator (G. Arvidsson). The Evaluator as Personal Coach: An Effective New Model for Formative Evaluation (M. Hendricks). Models in Evaluation: A Method to Increase Utilization (M. Qvortrup). Evaluation and the Public. From the Citizen's Point of View: The Positioning of Program Evaluation (W.K.B. Hofstee). Evaluation and the Consumer: The UK Experience (B. Jenkins, A. Gray). Public Access to Evaluation in Canada (R.V. Segsworth). Author Biographical Sketches. Author Index.