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Intersezionalità ed emergenza nel bilancio del tempo: possibili percorsi per la ricerca e le politiche di genere
No full textMicro, Meso, and Macro Dimensions of Change: A New Agenda for the Evaluation of Structural Policies
No full textTraditional approaches to policy analysis and evaluation of structural change center on impact assessment through econometric simulations and macroeconomic models at different levels of data aggregation. This chapter seeks to go beyond the traditional micro and macro approaches to policy analysis and evaluation to develop a dynamic meso-centered framework. Drawing upon complexity theory, this article critically reviews traditional macroeconomic models as well as microeconomic analyses of the European Cohesion Policy. This article claims that focusing policy analysis and evaluation on the meso-level has the potential to gain relevant cognitive insights on both micro and macro units of analysis. In other terms, the meso-level founds both the micro and the macro dimensions of structural change through micro-processes of institutional emergence, adaptation, and retention, and through macro processes of coordination
Le politiche economiche per la conciliazione dei tempi: gli anelli mancanti nel mainstreaming di genere
Full text linkBeyond Feminist and Gender-Based Approaches: Evaluating Cooperation between Men and Women for Gender Equity
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Co-creating evaluation for policy relevance
No full textWhat role can evaluation play in bearing factual knowledge to counter misinformation and propaganda? Does evaluation provide constructive critique and informed judgment to improve public policies? I address these questions revolving around three axes—a political-economy, epistemological, and behavioral line of analysis—which do not unfold separately but overlap and intertwine systematically. The political-economy perspective urges evaluators to raise awareness about their public role in institutional settings. They are methods experts and actors that embrace values, including human rights and democracy. The epistemological perspective helps evaluators grasp the technical and tacit knowledge they generate and contribute to situated responsiveness. The behavioral perspective helps evaluators understand the cognitive features of human-bounded rationality while co-creating policy-relevant information through enhanced participation
Conclusions: Some suggestions for evaluators' daily work in a post-truth world
No full textThe evaluation aims to improve public interventions (policies and programs) and ultimately contribute to social betterment and justice (Chelimsky, 2006; Henry & Mark, 2003). Daily practice typically involves evaluators assisting policy-makers and policy-takers in finding a better match between policy problems and available policy solutions. Previous volumes of The Comparative Policy Evaluation series have comprehensively discussed the challenges associated with the evaluation mission and its practices (see, for instance: Leeuw et al., 1994; Rieper et al., 2012; Palenberg & Paulson, 2020). However, post-truth, which in short denies evidence and facts, provides a new context in which evaluators work, making the evaluation mission even more challenging
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