In Search of the Unequivocal the Political Economy of Measurement in U.S. Labor Market Policy
- List Price: $113.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
Description:
Evaluation of social programs is now performed with greater frequency and with more methodological rigor than ever before. Yet it is not clear that the programs' effectiveness has improved because of this, or even that evaluation results have a rationalizing effect on policymaking. The author of this volume argues that the increasing use of social scientific evaluations nonetheless has profound political consequences. Rather than influencing the programs themselves, evaluation research shapes the political discourse surrounding these programs, setting the terms in which the policy is known and discussed, and establishing conditions for entry into the debate.
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