Vytautas Jankauskas, Steffen Eckhard

The Politics of Evaluation in International Organizations

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the internal machinery of evaluation systems in international organizations and challenges the conventional understanding of evaluation as a value-free activity. The authors propose new ways of better reconciling evaluation politics with the need to gather reliable evidence to improve the functioning of the United Nations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855206
• ISBN-10: 0192855204
• Artikelnr.: 67863056

Autorenporträt

Vytautas Jankauskas is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Zeppelin University, and an Associate Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Steffen Eckhard is Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at Zeppelin University. He is also affiliated with the 'Politics of Inequality' Center of Excellence at the University of Konstanz and is a Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The Rise of Evaluation in International Organizations
3: Evaluation Politics in International Organizations: A Theoretical Framework
4: Stakeholder Control of IO Evaluation Systems
5: The Orientation of IO Evaluation Units to Stakeholders
6: Political Biases in IO Evaluation Reports
7: Political Evaluation Use in International Organizations
8: Conclusion