Dilemmas of engagement evaluation and the new public management /

• Other Authors: Kushner, Saville, Norris, Nigel
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Advances in program evaluation ; v. 10.
• Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs); Public administration.; Political Science > Public Affairs & Administration.; Electronic books.

In our reforming public institutions it sometimes feels as though the very ground of social and political contracts is shifting. The economic revolution embraced by neo-liberals and neo-conservatives is paralleled by a governance revolution in those same institutions which were designed to protect u...