Policy evaluation and democracy: Do they fit?

Fritz Sager

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2018, vol. 69, issue C, 125-129

Abstract: The papers assembled in this special issue shed light on the question of the interrelation between democracy and policy evaluation by discussing research on the use of evaluations in democratic processes. The collection makes a case for a stronger presence of evaluation in democracy beyond expert utilization. Parliamentarians prove to be more aquainted with evaluations than expected and the inclusion of evaluations in policy arguments increases the deliberative quality of democratic campaigns. In sum, evaluation and democracy turn out to be well compatible after all.

Keywords: Evaluation and democracy; Non-expert evaluation utilization; Technocracy; Politics-administration-dichotomy; Evidence-based policy; Political use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.08.004

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