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Lecture before the Royal Central Asian society, London, Apr. 29, 1953.

AbstractThis NDE volume has recounted the legacy of Stafford Hood from multiples angles of vision. This Epilogue centers the original 1998 conceptualization of culturally responsive evaluation and discusses how a diverse professional community came together to dialogue, debate, reflect, and create, fleshing out culturally responsive evaluation and assessment in both theory and practice. Three conference themes—from CREA I, CREA V, and CREA VII—illustrate these critical conversations. The Epilogue closes with Stafford's exhortations on our responsibilities as culturally responsive evaluators and assessment specialists.

AbstractAs part of this NDE issue with its focus on the 2018 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Evaluator Competencies, this chapter discusses the content and delivery of material in Chapters 5 through 7. The reviewed chapters, and therefore this article, address potential uses of the 2018 AEA Evaluator Competencies to promote professional self‐knowledge, enhance education and training programs for new and in‐service professionals, and facilitate evaluator and evaluation pursuit of social justice. This chapter will assist readers of these chapters by providing a review from the perspective of an experienced evaluation professional. Its critiques and related admonitions to the profession are the sole and independent opinions of the author.

AbstractThis chapter explores the relationship between program evaluation and social change through the lens of key historical periods in the development of the field. Also profiled is the relationship between the practice of program evaluation by evaluators, and the communities or contexts in which the evaluand is situated. And finally, the chapter explores the strong bonds that support group consciousness and a desire for change. "Oppositional Consciousness," a sociological construct, serves as a heuristic that may be useful for program evaluators seeking to promote, support, or inspire social change.

AbstractThis volume set out to consider what must occur for evaluators and evaluation to incite social justice‐oriented change in the communities where there is a need. It takes an affirmative posture and, in each chapter, builds a case for engaging in social change. In a variety of contexts, exploration of the social consciousness of evaluators and the larger evaluation profession, has led to the encouraging possibility that promoting oppositional consciousness could more reliably lead to the desired change. However, some argue that moving evaluation in this direction is a mistake and goes too far. This chapter examines the cases that have been made for greater evaluator involvement in inciting social change and presents a rational for the who, what, where, and when of evaluator engagement in inciting social change. The chapter concludes with the expected value to society of this change in evaluator posture.

This article examines the urban regime in Detroit, Michigan, specifically examining how the regime makes decisions about redevelopment and major capital projects. Detroit's urban regime, which emergedfrom the urban unrest of the 1960s, mobilizes resources, promotes cooperation, and manages conflicts between public and private interests to facilitate and justify redevelopment. Although political decision makers are represented in the regime, we argue that the business community's influence is pervasive, visible. and overwhelming. The participants in Detroit's regime are more adversarial and disrespectful of local political entities than regimes previously studied. Regimes may warp democratic processes to accommodate business interests because the financial decisions of economic institutions reverberate throughout the local political economy.

Using a national survey and interviews with organizers, the authors find two broad areas of competition between social movement organizations (SMOs). Territorial competition focuses on turf and resources. Organizational competition comprises recruitment of staff leadership styles, definition of issues, training strategies, and recruitment of members. In this study of poor people's SMOs, the authors find that competition differs between SMOs in national federations and those that are independent, local groups. Further, they find that competition, rather than cooperation, is the prevailing pressure on SMOs.

The theoretical model of an urban growth machine requires augmentation and alteration when applied to growth in a contracting context. In many older cities there are growth activities on a political and economic landscape colored by scarcity, shrinking industrial bases, population decline, and fierce competition for resources. Drawing upon a case study of Detroit's New Center Area, we expand the discussion of growth machines by examining how and why an isolated but deliberate instance of neighborhood growth and redevelopment occurred.