The evaluation enterprise : a critical view / edited by Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : the evaluation enterprise, or evaluation as an enterprise / Nicoletta Stame And Jan-Eric Furubo -- Understanding the evaluation enterprise / Jan-Eric Furubo -- The politics : administration dichotomy and evaluation / Nicoletta Stame -- The skeptical turn in evaluation / Peter Dahler-Larsen -- From law to reality : a critical view on the institutionalization of evaluation in the Swiss canton of Geneva's Parliament / Katia Horber-Papazian and Christian Rosser -- Evaluation overload and evaluation underload / Rolf Sandahl -- Accountability's two solitudes and the questions it raises : accountability to whom? by whom? and for what? / Burt Perrin -- Italian evaluation policy between centralization and judicially-enforced accountability / Mita Marra -- Getting value for money? : a critical analysis of the costs and benefits of evaluation / Kim Forss -- The journey to a professional designation for evaluators in Canada / Marie-Helene Adrien And Lauren-Victoria Hellrung -- The concerted effort to professionalize evaluation practice : whither are we bound? / Thomas A. Schwandt -- The commercial side of evaluation : evaluation as an industry and as a professional service / Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire, And Christina A. Christie -- Conclusion : towards a better understanding of the evaluation enterprise / Jan-Eric Furubo And Nicoletta Stame.