O0PP 2020 - Policy Evaluation: Praxis and Politics
This course develops an original perspective on policy evaluation, combining a presentation of the key methods and required skills needed to be a good evaluator with a reflection on the politics and institutional organization of evaluation. Practicing policy evaluation requires a certain set of skills, which are not only methodological, but also include the capacity to reflect on values, to identify stakeholders and organize their participation to favour evaluation use. But the practice of evaluation can also be enriched by reflexivity on its political and institutional dimensions: who conducts evaluations? What are the political stakes underpinning evaluation practices? How is evaluation institutionalized in different contexts? Combining inputs from policy evaluation and policy analysis, this course thus reflects both on the practice and politics of evaluation. This CIVICA joint course brings together students from CEU, EUI and Sciences Po.
Anne REVILLARD
Séminaire
English
No prerequisite
Autumn 2024-2025
Team presentation 30%
Personal takeaway note 70%
Both assignments will be prepared at home (no table exam).
This course is an online course, delivered jointly to students at CEU, EUI and Sciences Po, an co-taught by faculty from the 3 institutions : Thilo Bodenstein (CEU), Anne Revillard (Sciences Po), Diane Stone (EUI) and Gaia Taffoni (EUI). The teaching format is highly participative and promotes active learning. The course combines a diversity of teaching approaches to favor an efficient appropriation of evaluation practices and theories by students : hands-on case studies, guided reading of selected texts, interactive lectures.
Adams, Adrienne E., Nnawulezi, Nkiru A., Vendenberg, Lela (2015) 'Expectations to Change' (E2C): A Participatory Method for Facilitating Stakeholder Engagement With Evaluation Findings. American Journal of Evaluation, 36:2, 243-255.
Bovens, M. (2005) Public Accountability, in E. Ferlie, L.E. Lynn and C. Pollitt (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 182-208
Bunea, A. (2017) Designing stakeholders consultations: Reinforcing or alleviating bias in the European Union system of governance? European Journal of Political Reseach 56: 46-69.
Fougère, Denis, et Nicolas Jacquemet. « Causal inference and impact evaluation ». Economie et Statistique, no 510-511‑512 (2019): 181‑200. https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1996.
Alkin, Marvin, et Christina Christie. « An Evaluation Theory Tree ». In Evaluation Roots, eds. Marvin Alkin et Christina Christie. London: Sage, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412984157.n2