Evaluation cultures : Sense-making in complex times / edited by Jean-Claude Barbier and Penny Hawkins
Imprint
New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 2012
Descript
256p. : ill ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Introduction. -- The culture of evaluation in Italy. -- Riding the Celtic tiger: forces shaping evaluation culture in Ireland in good times and bad. -- Sectoral evaluation cultures: a comparison of the education and labor market sectors in Germany. -- Is evaluation culture shaped by the Swiss political system and multiculturalism? -- Independence in evaluation and the role of culture. -- Clinical and managerial cultures of evaluative activity in the provision of acute health care. -- Cultures of Ombudsmann and audit institutions: effects on their evaluative activities. -- Four organizations-four evaluation cultures. -- Cultural dimensions of the African evaluation guidelines. -- Conclusion: universal, common, diverse and certainly nor uniform, evaluation culture.