Evaluation and Turbulent Times: Reflections on a Discipline in Disarray (Hardcover)

1: Introduction; 1: Changed Perspectives on Evaluation in Turbulent Times; 2: Quiet Past and Stormy Present: The Challenges for Evaluation; 3: Development Evaluation in an Age of Turbulence; 4: Unknowns and Ex Ante Evaluation: The Case for Scenario-Based Approaches; 2: Economic Turbulences and Evaluation; 5: Embracing Evaluation in Turbulent Economic and Fiscal Times; 6: Shifting Economic Paradigms: Can Evaluation Help Solve the European Dilemma of Public Spending?; 7: Evaluating the World Bank Group’s Response to the Global Economic Crisis in Real Time; 8: Challenges in Evaluating Financial Literacy; 3: The Political in Turbulent Times; 9: How Evaluation Is Accommodated in Emergency Policy Making: A Comparison of Post-9/11 Emergency Legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States; 10: Evaluating Counterterrorism: The Case of the Netherlands; 11: Evaluation in the Context of Humanitarian Crises; 12: Why Civil Society Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa Matter in Monitoring and Evaluating Poverty Interventions in Turbulent Times: A Case Study of Ghana; 4: Outlook; 13: Postscript?Evaluation and Turbulence: Beyond an Incremental View of the World