Evaluating Public Programmes: Contexts and Issues

Ian Shaw, University of Nottingham

• Contents: Introduction; The logic and development of evaluation; Issues in evaluating public services; Defining the goals of public services; Issues arising from the commissioning of research: case studies; The politics of evaluation; Bibliography.

’...a welcome addition to the literature on a subject around which assumptions of simpliciy abound.’ Social Work Education ’The book is highly useful for efforts to understand the challenges of evaluation research...The polemical style of the book fits its content well. The book is not at all boring...highly relevant for a different societal and political context.’ European Journal of Social Work