Dilemmas of engagement evaluation and the new public management

• Other Authors: Kushner, Saville, Norris, Nigel
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Advances in program evaluation ; v. 10.
• Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs); elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849504393; 1849504393; 0762313420
• ISSN: 1474-7863 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7863(2007)10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 157 p.)

In our reforming public institutions it sometimes feels as though the very ground of social and political contracts is shifting. The economic revolution embraced by neo-liberals and neo-conservatives is paralleled by a governance revolution in those same institutions which were designed to protect u...