Evaluation: Seeking Truth or Power?
Chapter 1 Evaluation: For Public Good or Professional Power? -- part Section I: -- chapter 2 Policy and Evaluation: Many Powers, Many Truths -- chapter 3 Sharing Power among Evaluation Players: Mission Possible? -- chapter 4 Taking One's Own Medicine? The Self-Evaluation of the Danish Evaluation Institute -- part Section II: Game Frontiers: Political and Administrative Players -- chapter 5 PART: Program Assessment or Power Grab? -- chapter 6 Co-Ordination of Social Policies at the EU Level: An Ambiguous Relationship between Evaluation and Politics -- chapter 7 The Power of Illusion: Evaluative Information and Political Steering in Valais -- chapter 8 Peer Evaluation{u2014}The Powerful Peer? -- part Section III: To Have and to Hold. Power -- chapter 9 Using Their Discretion: How State Audit Institutions Determine Which Performance Audits to Undertake -- chapter 10 Power Asymmetries and Performance Audits: The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Auditor General of Canada.