Évaluer les politiques publiques pour améliorer l’action publique

Évaluer les politiques publiques pour améliorer l’action publique
Author: Collectif
Publisher: Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 2821828284

Les septièmes « Rencontres internationales de la gestion publique », organisées en juin 2008 par l’Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique en partenariat avec l’OCDE, ont eu pour thème : « Évaluer les politiques publiques pour améliorer l’action publique ». En France l’évaluation des politiques publiques s’inscrit dans une actualité nouvelle. L’article 47-2 de la Constitution en consacre, en effet, l’obligation. Toutefois les tentatives d’évaluation effectuées depuis 1989 en ont donné une image négative : études lourdes et absconses, ne ébouchant guère sur des décisions ; travaux enlisés dans des comités pléthoriques... Comment alors relever le pari de la Constitution tout en ne reproduisant pas les erreurs réelles ou supposées du passé ? L’expérience internationale peut être une source d’inspiration, en permettant notamment de dégager une voie moyenne entre les audits rapides et l’évaluation ou en invitant à renforcer le travail entre les évaluateurs, les administrations et la société civile. La confrontation de regards différents et d’expertises plurielles permet à l’action publique de déboucher sur de meilleurs résultats. La France dispose de la LOLF et de la RGPP : comment bâtir sur ces bases en s’inspirant de l’expérience de pays qui pratiquent également une gestion par programmes ? Cet ouvrage trace un tableau des préoccupations concrètes que rencontrent divers pays dans le développement de l’évaluation : Royaume-Uni, Espagne, Suède, Italie, France, Pays-Bas. Les multiples questions de méthodes, de stratégies, et les relations entre les acteurs sont ici abordées. Cet ouvrage s’adresse à ceux qui s’intéressent à l’évaluation mais également aux questions sociales, notamment à celles relatives à l’organisation des débats publics dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de politiques publiques.

L' évaluation des politiques publiques

L' évaluation des politiques publiques
Author: Gaëlle Baron
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2012
Genre: France
ISBN: 2336004453

La 4e de couv. indique : "Depuis quelques années, nous vivons dans un contexte accru de tensions, économiques, environnementales et sociales, qui nécessite de repenser nos modèles de développement et nos façons d'appréhender l'État et les politiques publiques. L'évaluation des politiques publiques constitue l'un des premiers instruments à disposition des pouvoirs publics pour engager les mutations nécessaires de leur action. L'évaluation se situe ainsi à un carrefour de son développement : elle doit accompagner, et si possible précéder ces évolutions. L'implication des citoyens ou de leurs représentants dans les processus d'évaluation, ainsi que la diffusion grand public des évaluations menées sont des réponses aux attentes de participation à la décision publique. Face aux actions d'incitation et d'animation nouvellement mises en oeuvre par les pouvoirs publics, l'évaluation doit adapter ses méthodologies pour en mesurer les effets et les plus values. Dans le contexte de raréfaction des ressources publiques, l'évaluation a un rôle croissant à jouer dans l'identification des priorités d'intervention par son apport d'informations et son jugement de valeur partagé sur l'action publique. Ce sont ces pistes de réflexion que le présent ouvrage se propose de mettre en lumière pour relever les défis d'une société en tension."

Evaluation for the 21st Century

Evaluation for the 21st Century
Author: Eleanor Chelimsky
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1997-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 145224913X

What methodological tools have been most useful in doing evaluation? What are some of the new methodologies that are being used and developed? Will the types of things evaluated expand from programs, personnel, and products to foreign aid, medical technology, environmental interventions, and World Bank loan programs? What will evaluation be like in the 21st century? These impressive evaluators from around the globe explore how evaluation has come to be what it is today and what the professional evaluation landscape will be like in the future. They examine the following: -What makes evaluation different from other disciplines? -The links and differences between evaluation and auditing professions? -Which activities have priority in evaluation, under what circumstances, and for what purposes? -New methodological approaches to doing evaluation. -The issues of advocacy versus truth in evaluation and between evaluating programs versus empowering people to evaluate their own programs. Evaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators′ chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices. A stunning achievement, Evaluation for the 21st Century is for all professionals and practitioners in evaluation, management, public administration, sociology, psychology, education research, public health, and nursing.

Quality Matters

Quality Matters
Author: John Winston Mayne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351322427

Information--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management. Surely today there is no problem with information, for this is the age of information overload. It pours onto our computer screens and out of our printers. Indeed, many governments claim, often with some justification, to be more open and transparent than ever before. But what if the life-blood is contaminated, or the fuel polluted? Then the body politic sickens and the engine of public management runs rough. It is the vital issue of the quality of the information we receive that this book addresses. Quality Matters compares approaches across different jurisdictional settings and across three different types of information evaluation. The chapters describe and analyze quality assurance in a number of countries and within a variety of international organizations. These have been selected either because they are widely considered to be leaders in evaluating information or because they have experience with assuring quality information that can instruct others. Contributors are from Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and the World Bank. This pioneering study analyzes practices for assuring the quality of evaluation, performance auditing, and reporting in the face of political, organizational, and technical obstacles. A final chapter addresses the extent to which quality assurance systems become bothersome rituals or remain meaningful mechanisms to ensure quality control. This well-structured volume will be of particular interest to policymakers and adds much to the literature on program evaluation and performance auditing.

Evaluation Cultures

Evaluation Cultures
Author: Jean-Claude Barbier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351296868

Evaluation Cultures draws upon a sample of reflections, drawn from organizational practices, nationally centered political cultures, and ethnic cultures, as a framework for understanding how culture influences the work of evaluation. Two main conclusions seem to emerge: first, that there exists no single, uniform, and homogenous national evaluation culture; second, that the idea of a unified transnational culture of evaluation is an illusion.The evaluation community includes a diverse group of professionals; a diversity that is not just represented in national or ethnic culture but also in academic backgrounds, public and private sector allegiances, and personal character. The contributors to this book represent, in part, this diversity by reflecting a range of views.Evaluation Cultures draws upon the experience of senior evaluation practitioners, who share their reflections on their practice and experience, in order to put forth challenges to purely academic analysis. Evaluation Cultures presents a consistent, if not exhaustive, attempt to give analytical and empirical sense to all of the cultures of the evaluation community.

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap
Author: Phillip Allman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351505297

Over the past twenty to thirty years, evaluation has become increasingly important to the field of public policy. The number of people involved and specializing in evaluation has also increased markedly. Evidence of this trend can be found in the International Atlas of Evaluation, the establishment of new journals and evaluation societies, and the increase in systems of evaluation. Increasingly, the main reference point has become an assessment of the merit and value of interventions as such rather than the evaluator's disciplinary background. This growing importance of evaluation as an activity has also led to an increasing demand for the type of competencies evaluators should have.Evaluation began as a niche area within the social and behavioral sciences. It subsequently became linked to policy research and analysis, and has, more recently, become trans-disciplinary. This volume demonstrates an association between the evaluation tradition in a particular country or policy field and the nature of the relationship between social and behavioral science research and evaluative practice. This book seeks to offer comprehensive data, which lead to conclusions about patterns that transcend the gap between evaluation and the social scientific disciplines.Mind the Gap has a twofold aim. The first is to highlight and characterize the gap between evaluation practices and debates, and the substantive knowledge debates within the social and behavioral sciences. The second is to show why this gap is problematic for the practice of evaluation, while at the same time illustrating possible ways to build bridges. The book is centered on the value of producing useful evaluations grounded in social science theory and research.

Public Policy Analysis

Public Policy Analysis
Author: Peter Knoepfel
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847429041

This is an English version of a text on public policy analysis originally written for practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its application in everyday situations. This English version introduces supplementary illustrations and examples from the United Kingdom.

The Social Sciences of Quantification

The Social Sciences of Quantification
Author: Isabelle Bruno
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319440004

This book details how quantification can serve both as evidence and as an instrument of government, whether when dealing with statistics on employment, occupational health and economic governance, or when developing public management or target-driven policies. In the process, it presents a thought-provoking homage to Alain Desrosières, who pioneered ways to study large numbers and the politics underlying them. It opens with a summary of Desrosières's contributions to the field in which several generations of researchers detail how this statistician and historian profoundly influenced them. This tribute, based on personal testimonies, bears witness to the vitality of the school of thought and analytical framework Desrosières initiated. Next, a collection of essays explores the statistical argument in the neoliberal era, examining issues such as counting the homeless in Europe, measuring the performance of public services, and quantifying the effects of public action on the unemployed in France. The third part details the uses of quantification. It reveals that although statistics are frequently used to the advantage of those in power, they can also play a vital role in challenging and resisting both the conventions underlying the measurements as well as the measurements themselves.Featuring the work of economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists, and statisticians, this title provides readers with a thoughtful look at an influential figure in the history of statistics. It also shows how statistics are used to direct public policy, the degree of conflict that is possible in their production, and the disputes that can develop around their uses.