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Evaluation of Change in Local Governance: The Rhetorical Wall and the Politics of Images

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This article, grounded in evaluation research on intermunicipal cooperation, contends that processes of change in local government present specific challenges for evaluation. In the course of data collection, researchers encountered a phenomenon that they called `the rhetorical wall', where there is a wide gap between intentions as expressed at the rhetorical level and what actually occurs.The rhetorical wall indicates the complexity and difficulty of decision-making involved in local government change processes. It also indicates what can be termed `the politics of images', which may be regarded as a new institutionalized rule affecting the behaviour, interpretations and actions of local-level actors. It is suggested that the notions of the rhetorical wall and the politics of images have many implications with regard to evaluation of change in local government.

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Evaluation

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California : Sage Publications., 2008

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Indonesia

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13563890

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Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2008. Page 141-155

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Complexity
evaluation of change
new institutionalism
local governance
Evaluation of Change in Local Governance

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