Evaluation Research
Bureaucratic Politics
Decision-Making
Programs/Organizations
Future Directions
100
This affects reputations, careers, jobs, and expectations
What are evaluation research outcomes?
100
This is described as an ancient and important art.
What is the politics of program survival?
100
Can show political tradeoffs in more detail, such as how fulfilling political needs affects a program.
What is one use of evaluative reports in decision-making?
100
Head Start, Public Housing, Planned Parenthood and others.
What are some examples of social programs?
100
This is the person who suggested integrated policies that reach deeper into the social fabric.
Who is Daniel Moynihan?
200
The cause of evaluations due to new money.
What are new programs?
200
These are described as the creatures of legislative and bureaucratic politics.
What are social programs?
200
The democratic decision-making process.
What is the primary organizational structure for decision-making?
200
Because “it is the program into which new money is being poured that tends to raise the most immediate questions” (p.94).
Why are new programs often under more scrutiny than older ones?
200
This person must be as creative and strategically useful as s/he should be.
Who is the evaluation researcher?
300
These are provided by evaluation and support the ability to make wise future choices.
What are facts?
300
According to this person, organizational interests are a dominant factor in determining the stand that many individuals take.
Who is Morton Halperin?
300
Political interest vs. program effectiveness.
What is one social issue involved in making decisions based on program research?
300
Program goals are often influenced by political debate and discussions around funding allotment.
Why do program goals often tend to be inflated and “inherently incompatible”?
300
This type of analysis may help to resolve questions about foregone opportunities.
What is political-benefit analysis?
400
Evaluation itself has a political stance.
What is one intrusion of political considerations?
400
Because of the political process of negotiation needed to get a program enacted, these are often made.
What are inflated promises?
400
Motivation to create a good record in 1-2 year time periods for political elections and budget cycle focuses on starting fresh, and little attention is given to gathering and considering evidence on existing programs.
How does the "time horizon" of the policy process effect decision-making?
400
Realistic goals are specific and focused. Inflated goals lack clarity and may pander to a particular political agenda.
What is the difference between realistic and inflated program goals?
400
Social Experimentation
What is a way to test controlled small-scale prototypes before major social programs are launched?
500
The 3 reasons why evaluation programs emerge.
What are support, opposition, and bargaining?
500
DAILY DOUBLE (Quote) He noted that: “…you may go through a scientific analysis to answer the question of where the airport should be located, but an altogether different decision may finally emerge from the bureaucracy.”
Who is Julius Margolis?
500
It has little to no effect most of the time for various political reasons.
What outcome does evaluation research have on public policy?
500
It’s hard to solve social problems in the first place. We develop focused programs to address large-scale problems. Then, add political turmoil, economic issues, value differences, idealism vs. realism, and other factors.
What are reasons that social programs and program evaluation are, in a way, set up for failure?
500
She would demonstrate greater support for ongoing evaluation.
What is the primary shift in Weiss's thinking from 1973 to 1993?
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