Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation

2021 ◽  
pp. 428-467
Author(s):  
Christine Tartaro
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Policy Analysis

The practice and promise of policy analysis and program evaluation to improve decision making within the U.S. federal government

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Maynard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Present Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Strategies For Change ◽  
Current Movement ◽  
The U.S

This chapter draws on a 40-year history of patchwork efforts to use data to inform the development of public policy and shape its implementation. I begin with a description of the evolution of the policy process, drawing largely on experiences within the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor. All three agencies have been major supporters of and contributors to advances in the methods of policy analysis and the use of program evaluation to guide decision making. The chapter draws on the roles of these agencies in laying the groundwork for the current emphasis on evidence-based policymaking, in part because of their leadership roles and in part because of the author’s first-hand experience working with these agencies. Of particular note is its attention to the lead up to the present context in which policy analysis and program evaluation are central to both the policy development and monitoring processes. The chapter ends with a discussion of the current movement to create and use credible evidence on the impacts and cost-effectiveness of programs, policies and practices as the foundation for more efficient and effective government and, where evidence is lacking, for integrating a knowledge-building agenda into the roll-out of strategies for change. 

scholarly journals Building Bridges between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J Heckman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program evaluation approach. It offers a third way to do policy analysis that combines the best features of both approaches. I illustrate the value of this alternative approach by making the implicit economics of LATE explicit, thereby extending the interpretability and range of policy questions that LATE can answer. (JEL C21, E61)

Teaching Policy Evaluation

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Stuart S. Nagel
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Course Content

An instructor needs to resolve several issues in teaching a course on policy evaluation. Those issues include matters of course content such as what books to use, what evaluation methods to present, the role of statistical analysis in determining relations, the role of legal analysis in determining values, the role of political and administrative feasibility, and how to combine policy analysis and program evaluation.Back in 1958, the economist Roland McKean, working for the Rand Corporation, wrote a book entitled Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis: With Emphasis on Water Resources Development (Wiley, 1958). That may have been the first book that attempted to provide a survey, of methods involved in systematically evaluating alternative public policies, although only the first 100 pages are general in nature.

Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis: Toward a New Synthesis

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Bolland ◽  
Kathleen A. Bolland
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
New Synthesis
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