La apropiación de la evaluación por las administraciones

Saville Kushner

doi:10.24965/gapp.v0i3.430

Authors

Saville Kushner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24965/gapp.v0i3.430

Keywords:

Evaluation independence, program evaluation, politics

Abstract

The past 30 years has seen a gradual internalisation of program and policy evaluation into the machinery of government. This happens either through the evaluation function being taken on by administrators themselves, or by those administrators stipulating and proscribing how the evaluation is conducted and for what purposes. This poses important questions for democracy and for the citizen. This article examines the consequences of this 'capture' by the administrative system by looking at two examples: one, taken from the field of international development; the other from a government agency commissioning of an evaluation of one of their programs.

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Author Biography

Saville Kushner

Doctor en Educación por la University of East Anglia (RU) y Catedrático de Evaluación en la University of the West of England (Bristol, RU). Sus investigaciones giran en torno a la evaluación de programas, tanto en su vertiente teórica como aplicada. Ha sido asesor de la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de UNICEF, en materia de seguimiento y evaluación de programas. Entre sus principales obras destacan “Own Goals: confronting the democratic deficit in millennium planning”, en K. Ryan and B. Cousins, eds, Handbook of Educational Evaluation, Thousand Islands, Ca: Sage, 2009; Dilemmas of Engagement: Evaluation and the New Public Management, Oxford: Elsevier, 2007, coeditado con N. Norris y Personalising Evaluation, Londres: Sage, 2000 (traducida al castellano con el título Personalizar la evaluación, Madrid: Morata, 2002).

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