Why evaluations sometimes can’t be used—and why they shouldn’t

From Studies to Streams: Managing Evaluative Systems: Comparative Policy Evaluation

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 147-165

  Furubo, Jan Eric ^a  

^a Secretary General of European Evaluation Society   (Sweden)

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EID: 85082083581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203791189-9     Document Type: Chapter

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