ImprimerPearl Eliadis, Jan-Eric Furubo & Steve Jacob (eds), Evaluation: Seeking Truth or Power, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2011, 240 pages.
Ce livre étudie les relations de pouvoir qui peuvent surgir dans le cadre d’une démarche d’évaluation. Les auteurs cherchent à comprendre dans quelle mesure les évaluateurs recherchent le pouvoir pour leurs propres intérêts en s’appuyant sur le postulat que « si vous êtes en possession d’un attribut qui procure du pouvoir, pourquoi ne pas l’utiliser? ».
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Table des matières
1. Evaluation: For Public Good or Professional Power?
Jan-Eric Furubo and Ove Karlsson Vestman
Section I: “Do unto Ourselves….”
2. Policy and Evaluation: Many Powers, Many Truths
Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins
3. Sharing Power among Evaluation Players: Mission Possible?
Steve Jacob
4. Taking One’s Own Medicine? The Self-Evaluation of the Danish Evaluation Institute
Peter Dahler-Larsen
Section II: Game Frontiers: Political and Administrative Players
5. PART: Program Assessment or Power Grab?
Jonathan D. Breul
6. Co-Ordination of Social Policies at the EU Level: An Ambiguous Relationship between Evaluation and Politics
Jean-Claude Barbier
7. The Power of Illusion: Evaluative Information and Political Steering in Valais
Katia Horber-Papazian
8. Peer Evaluation—The Powerful Peer?
Sandra Speer
Section III: To Have and to Hold … Power
9. Using Their Discretion: How State Audit Institutions Determine Which Performance Audits to Undertake
Jeremy Lonsdale
10. Power Asymmetries and Performance Audits: The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Auditor General of Canada
Pearl Eliadis
Postscript
Evaluators in the Land of Oz-Dealing with Hard and Soft Power
Ray C. Rist
