scholarly journals "A Brief Overview on the Methods of Impact Evaluation of Public Policies"

Author(s):  
Flávio RB da Guarda
Ánfora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 54-76
Author(s):  
Joan Subirats I

This paper pretends to go deeply into the reasons that would explainjustify this dissarrengment between theory and practice, and propose some ways of advancement. Today, the policies of social inclusion almost always have strong elements of innovation, of creative adaptation to heterogeneous situations, not standarized a priori, and precisely for this reason, the elements of the proccess are very significative. It should not be strange to us, -lt is advised- that the evaluations that have this elements of proccess in mind, can be notably more powerful and useful than those that are centered exclusively in the subject "results".In these 14 points for debate, a discusion is presented about the role and results of public action, that it is not situated today only in how to make things, but it demands instruments that let also answer the questions of what public instruments must deal with, and who can best offer these effective and efficient results to these social demands channeled through these representative powers.


2013 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Stame

The current economic and social crisis calls for new practices within the public administration: an increase in its productivity could be obtained by the mobilization of social energies and the diffusion of leadership capacities. Spending review, performance management and evaluation of public policies are separate activities that converge in view of reaching the objective of "doing more and better with less". For each of these activities it is necessary to decide which method to apply. If the democratic alternative prevailed in each of them, it would be possible to overcome those conditions (centralism, legalism, compliance) that are at the origin of the present crisis, and that would be reinforced were those activities conducted according to the traditional way.


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