You Want Me to Do What? Evaluators and the Pressure to Misrepresent Findings

Evaluators' experiences with being pressured by a key stakeholder to misrepresent findings were investigated in an anonymous survey of a random sample of over 2500 American Evaluation Association members; a response rate of 37% was obtained. Overall, 42% of the respondents had encountered misrepresentation pressure, with 70% of this subgroup having faced it on more than one occasion. Misreprese…

Improving Program Results Through the Use of Predictive Operational Performan…

In Canada, in-depth evaluations of federal programs are intended to occur every 5 years. As such, evaluation is a periodic retrospective (lag) indicator examining results achieved versus program objectives. In a Canadian context, stand-alone evaluations have proved challenging to implement, time consuming, and not well adapted to annual management accountability needs. Consequently, there are i…

The Nature and Frequency of Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Program …

Although evaluation theorists over the last two decades have argued for the importance of including stakeholders from marginalized groups in program planning and research, little is known about the degree of inclusion in program evaluation practice. In particular, we know little about the type and level of inclusion of people with intellectual, developmental, and psychiatric disabilities in the…

Arguments for a Common Set of Principles for Collaborative Inquiry in Evaluation

In this article, we critique two recent theoretical developments about collaborative inquiry in evaluation—using logic models as a means to understand theory, and efforts to compartmentalize versions of collaborative inquiry into discrete genres—as a basis for considering future direction for the field. We argue that collaborative inquiry in evaluation is about relationships between trained eva…

Representing People and Representing Places: Community, Continuity and the …

In late 2011 to early 2012 the four UK Boundary Commissions published their provisional recommendations for new parliamentary constituencies. These were produced according to new rules for redistributions legislated in 2011, which make electoral equality the paramount criterion; organic criteria—such as continuity of constituency boundaries and fitting those within the maps of communities rep…

Universal Party Primaries and General Election Outcomes: The Case of Uruguay …

What would happen if all parties competing in the electoral game were forced to hold open, binding, concurrent and obligatory primaries constrained by a ‘Sore Loser Law’? The answer to this question has not been explored, perhaps because there is only one democracy in the world that has applied such rules more than once: Uruguay. This country offers a fertile ground for testing some of the hypo…

Proportional Prayers: Time for Reflection in the Scottish Parliament

Time for Reflection (TFR) was designed at the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, as an alternative to Westminster Anglican prayers, to provide a weekly opportunity for representatives of religions and belief systems to address the Parliament. Appearances are designed to reflect the diversity of belief in proportion to relative support in the country as evident in the 2001 census. Chr…

Linking Pre-Parliamentary Political Experience and the Career Trajectories of…

This article uses empirical data to establish and analyse the links between pre-parliamentary political experience and career trajectory once elected to the House of Commons. It suggests a move away from the existing occupation focused frameworks towards a broader ‘political experience’ approach which distinguishes between traditional and non-traditional routes into Parliament. The framework is…

Brothers all? The Operation of the Electoral College in the 2010 Labour Leade…

This article analyses the wealth of data released by the Labour Party on its 2010 leadership election. We uncover the way in which the list of candidates was expanded via the initial nomination process in the parliamentary Labour Party and highlight the artificiality of some candidacies. We find little evidence in the voting data to support the belief that the Miliband brothers represented tw…

Recall of MPs in the UK: ‘If I Were You I Wouldn't Start from Here’

The publication of a White Paper, Recall of MPs, and a draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny, by the UK Government in December 2011 was greeted with almost universal antipathy. In bringing forward the draft Bill Cabinet Office ministers declared their intention to ‘trigger a debate on what would be the best model for a recall mechanism’ and they expressed a willingness ‘to consider alternativ…

Making Democracy Work by Early Formal Engagement? A Comparative Exploration o…

Comparative trends in political participation in the West draw a pessimistic picture: younger generations tend to avoid formal politics, opting instead for radical forms of political engagement or opting out altogether from the political process. This trend poses an obvious threat to the core democratic idea of popular control of government. One remedy for this problem, proposed in recent years…

Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Oversight Committees: The Select Commit…

The departmental select committees of the British House of Commons deal with executive oversight, but not with legislation. This has two important knock-on effects. First, although these committees are permanent, expert, and largely well regarded in Britain, they are often overlooked by omparative scholars. Second, and connectedly, their impact on policy is very difficult to assess. Even in the…

Petitions Systems: Contributing to Representative Democracy?

Focusing on case studies of five different petitions systems, but also drawing on the Coalition government's new e-petitions system, this article identifies a number of characteristics of petitions systems. It argues that as a tool for participation they have the potential to act as a significant input to representative forms of democracy by providing a mechanism to enable the public to express…

Evaluation Review, Volume 36 Nomor 6 December 2012

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Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 66, Nomor 4 October 2013

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Social Research, Volume 80, Nomor 2, Summer 2013

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Pembangunan untuk Semua: mengelola pembangunan regional ala SBY

Buku ini membahas mengenai uapay Presiden SBY dalam mengelola kebijakan pembangunan nasional di era yang sedang berubah (policy-making process in the changing context). Buku ini mengurai persoalan mendasar dalam pembangunan daerah, agenda kebijakan, danlangkah demi langkah yang telah dilakukan oleh Presiden dalam menyatukan semua potensi anak bangsa guna menggapai visi nasional kita, yait…

Masalah Negara Kepulauan di Era Globalisasi

Buku ini mendeskripsikan data dan kajian tentang masalah-masalah yang dihadapi oleh Indonesia sebagai Negara kepulauan. Ada enam kajian yang dipaparkan; pertama tentang budaya maritime, geopolitik dan tantangan keamanan Indonesia; kedua , tentang pengelolaan wilayah pesisir dan laut oleh pemerintah pusat dan pemerintah daerah; ketiga, tentang studi perbandingan program pemberdayaan masyar…

Wilayah Pesisir & Pulau-Pulau Keecil di Indonesia

Buku ini menelaah berbagai aspek pengelolaan wilayah pesisir dan pulau-pulau kecil di Indonesia. Ada lima persoalan yang disorot: Pertama, tentang hak pengusahaan perairan pesisir yang boleh diberikan kepada masyarakat lokal, nelayan tradisional, dan pelaku usaha; Kedua, nilai strategis coral triangle initiative bagi masyarakat pesisir; Ketiga, peran lembaga swadaya masyarakat inter- n…