The Role of Evaluation in Building Evidence-Based Policy

Larry L. Orr

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2018, vol. 678, issue 1, 51-59

Abstract: Growing recognition that many government programs may be ineffective, or at best of unproven effectiveness, has led to the evidence-based policy movement—an effort to ensure that proposed and existing public programs have been shown to achieve their objectives. Rigorous evaluation is central to this movement. In this article, I briefly review the history of evaluation of social programs and the barriers to the application of effective evaluation to public policy.

Keywords: evidence-based policy; social experiments; randomized trials; evaluation; evaluation history; barriers to evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716218764299

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