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.

1. Economic development projects -- Evaluation
2. Political planning -- Evaluation
3. Social planning -- Evaluation
4. Culture
5. Evaluation -- Social aspects
6. Evaluation research (Social action programs)