Democratic Evaluation and Democracy: Exploring the Reality (Evaluation and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 168123789X ISBN 13: 9781681237893

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear.  Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not).  A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 168123789X
• ISBN 13: 9781681237893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Podems Donna