Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century : Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities

• Main Author: Duffy, Deirdre Niamh (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
• Subjects: evaluace > metodologie; vládnutí > Velká Británie; politická analýza > Velká Británie; sociální politika > Velká Británie; veřejná správa > Velká Británie; evaluation > methodology; governance > Great Britain; policy analysis > Great Britain; social policy > Great Britain; public administration > Great Britain; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9781137545138
• DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54513-8
• Physical Description: XV, 161 p. online resource.

This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative of evidence-based policy-making, arguing instead that evaluation research is used to discipline and control. At the same time, drawing on the work o...