Jean-Claude Barbier is research director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 1. His main research focuses are employment policies, social policy, and evaluation of public policies. Penny Hawkins is senior evaluation officer at the Rockefeller Foundation. She previously served as head of evaluation for the International Development Group of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

• Introduction; The Culture of Evaluation in Italy; Riding the Celtic Tiger: Forces Shaping Evaluation Culture in Ireland in Good Times and Bad; Sectoral Evaluation Cultures: A Comparison of the Education and Labor Market Sectors in Germany; Is Evaluation Culture Shaped by the Swiss Political System and Multiculturalism?; Independence in Evaluation and the Role of Culture; Clinical and Managerial Cultures of Evaluative Activity in the Provision of Acute Health Care; Cultures of Ombudsman and Audit Institutions: Effects on Their Evaluative Activities; Four Organizations—Four Evaluation Cultures; Cultural Dimensions of the African Evaluation Guidelines; Conclusion: Universal, Common, Diverse, and Certainly Not Uniform, Evaluation Culture

Jean-Claude Barbier is research director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 1. His main research focuses are employment policies, social policy, and evaluation of public policies. Penny Hawkins is senior evaluation officer at the Rockefeller Foundation. She previously served as head of evaluation for the International Development Group of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

• Introduction; The Culture of Evaluation in Italy; Riding the Celtic Tiger: Forces Shaping Evaluation Culture in Ireland in Good Times and Bad; Sectoral Evaluation Cultures: A Comparison of the Education and Labor Market Sectors in Germany; Is Evaluation Culture Shaped by the Swiss Political System and Multiculturalism?; Independence in Evaluation and the Role of Culture; Clinical and Managerial Cultures of Evaluative Activity in the Provision of Acute Health Care; Cultures of Ombudsman and Audit Institutions: Effects on Their Evaluative Activities; Four Organizations—Four Evaluation Cultures; Cultural Dimensions of the African Evaluation Guidelines; Conclusion: Universal, Common, Diverse, and Certainly Not Uniform, Evaluation Culture

Jean-Claude Barbier is research director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 1. His main research focuses are employment policies, social policy, and evaluation of public policies. Penny Hawkins is senior evaluation officer at the Rockefeller Foundation. She previously served as head of evaluation for the International Development Group of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

• Introduction; The Culture of Evaluation in Italy; Riding the Celtic Tiger: Forces Shaping Evaluation Culture in Ireland in Good Times and Bad; Sectoral Evaluation Cultures: A Comparison of the Education and Labor Market Sectors in Germany; Is Evaluation Culture Shaped by the Swiss Political System and Multiculturalism?; Independence in Evaluation and the Role of Culture; Clinical and Managerial Cultures of Evaluative Activity in the Provision of Acute Health Care; Cultures of Ombudsman and Audit Institutions: Effects on Their Evaluative Activities; Four Organizations—Four Evaluation Cultures; Cultural Dimensions of the African Evaluation Guidelines; Conclusion: Universal, Common, Diverse, and Certainly Not Uniform, Evaluation Culture