14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. Part 1. The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues
5. 1. Introduction: Issues and Context 3
6. 2. Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis 29
7. 3. Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings 47
8. 4. Responding to Citizens’ Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector 69
9. Part 2. The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems
10. 5. Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues 89
11. 6. The Modern State: Continental Traditions 117
12. 7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems 141
13. 8. The Blurring of the Distinction “State Versus Society” in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State 151
14. 9. The Hidden Public Sector: The ‘Quangocratization’ of the World? 165
15. 10. Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue 189
16. Part 3. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning
17. 11. The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation 213
18. 12. Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks 235
19. 13. Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning 257
20. 14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation 271
21. 15. The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis 309
22. 16. A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector 325
23. 17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: ‘Comptrol’ and ‘Interpolate Balance’ 347
24. Part 4. Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination
25. 18. Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of their Antagonism and Compatibility 369
26. 19. Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What? 395
27. 20. Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions 417
28. 21. Votes and Vetoes 441
29. 22. Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment 451
30. 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government 469
31. 24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements 501
32. 25. Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion 525
33. List of Contributors 535
34. Index of Authors 537
35. Index of Subjects 546
36. Backmatter 555