Program evaluation in the public sector

Part I. Theory and politics

Program evaluation and administrative theory / Orville F. Poland

Where politics and evaluation research meet / Carol H. Weiss

The strategic retreat on objectives : learning from failure in American public policy / Aaron Wildavsky

Social experiments : the promise and the problems / Alice M. Rivlin

Evaluations : use with caution / Selma J. Mushkin

Constitutional perspectives on accountability and evaluation : the citizen versus the administrative state in court / David H. Rosenbloom

Part II. Evaluation : the executive level

Fostering federal program evaluation : a current OMB initiative / Susan Salasin and Laurence Kivens

Status and issues : federal program evaluation / U.S. General Accounting Office

Methodological pitfalls in evaluation : the state level / Kent S. Jamison

Evaluation : a municipal perspective / Edward C. Farrell

Program evaluation and the courts / Carl Swidorski

Part III. Evaluation : the legislative level

The challenge of evaluating federal social programs / Elmer B. Staats

Program evaluation in Kansas / Jeffrey H. Brewer

Program evaluation in New York / Richard D. Nicewonger

Program evaluation in Virginia / Peter C. Clendenin

Evaluating program evaluation : a legislative staff perspective / J. Stephen Grimes

Part IV. Evaluation : management dimensions

Planning as a function of public administration and evaluation / Orville F. Poland

Evaluation and productivity analysis / Walter F. Balk

Evaluation in planning the future / Don Mankin

Program evaluation and sunset legislation / Philip H. Schervish and Albert C. Hyde

Part V. Evaluation : some substantive dimensions

Health care evaluation in government : ideals and practices / Frank J. Thompson

Evaluating social services systems for the aging / Albert C. Hyde

Program evaluation in R&D programs / Philip H. Whitbeck and R. Wayne Young

Part VI. Case evaluations

The problem with motorcycle helmets : an evaluation of Indiana's experience / Albert C. Hyde and Philip H. Schervish

Fluoridation of public water supplies in rural jurisdictions : a cost-benefit review / Patricia A. Barnes ... [et al.]

Assessing the effectiveness of a marine environmental protection program / John R. Harrald ... [et al.]

Local area agencies help the aging but problems need correcting / U.S. General Accounting Office.