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Success in Evaluation: Focusing on the Positives

Product Description: Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning. The contributors believe that a systematic focus on success will lead to increased awareness of evaluation and its findings, a more positive attitude, and a greater chance of actual evaluation use...read more

By Steffen Bohni Nielsen (editor), Ray C. Rist (foreword by), Rudi Turksema (editor) and Peter Van Der Knaap (editor)

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9781412855686 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 2015, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Success in Evaluation takes a fundamentally different approach to the mainstream supply side discussion of evaluation quality, utilization, and learning.

Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence: Dealing With Crises That Endanger Our Future

Product Description: The recent economic, social, and political turbulence has adversely affected both developed and developing countries. Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence: Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future uses these traumatic years as the backdrop to observe and reflect on the consequences for development in general and evaluation in particular...read more

By Marie-helene Boily (editor), Frederic R. Martin (editor) and Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780821398791 | World Bank, April 19, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The recent economic, social, and political turbulence has adversely affected both developed and developing countries.

Influencing Change: Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance

Product Description: In the first section of this book, four chapters explore how evaluation can influence and interact with the change process in policy and institutional development. Wijayatilake recalls a convincing and riveting story about how evaluation was introduced in Sri-Lanka and what kind of striking results could be achieved in a few years through a progressive pragmatic approach and strong leadership...read more

By Marie-helene Boily, Frederic Martin and Ray C. Rist

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9780821384039 | World Bank, March 28, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In the first section of this book, four chapters explore how evaluation can influence and interact with the change process in policy and institutional development.

The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations

Product Description: 'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a ârigorousâ quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question...read more

By Ray C. Rist

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9780821378915 | World Bank, June 1, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context.

From Studies To Streams: Managing Evaluative Systems

Product Description: Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this debate among evaluators on how evaluations are used has been essentially a closed oneâevaluators talking only among themselves...read more

By Ray C. Rist (editor) and Nicoletta Stame (editor)

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9780765802873 | Transaction Pub, March 30, 2006, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence.

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9781412818377 | Transaction Pub, February 16, 2011, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence.

Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation

By Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc (editor), Ray C. Rist (editor) and Evert Vedung (editor)

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9781560003380 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $45.95

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9780765805461 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 2003, cover price $35.95

International Atlas of Evaluation

Product Description: Evaluation of public policy has changed considerably in the past decade. This is especially true in Europe, where evaluation is now an institutional part of public sector governance, but it is also characteristic of other parts of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jan-Eric Furubo (editor), Ray C. Rist (editor) and Rolf Sandahl (editor)

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9780765800954 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 2002, cover price $131.00 | About this edition: Evaluation of public policy has changed considerably in the past decade.

Program Evaluation and the Management of Government

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By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780765806000 | Transaction Pub, February 1, 1999, cover price $30.95

Politics and Practices of Inter-Governmental Evaluation

Product Description: Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making...read more

By Olaf Rieper (editor), Ray C. Rist (introduced by) and Jacques Toulemonde (editor)

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9781560002567 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 1996, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects.

Evaluation and Development: Proceedings of the 1994 World Bank Conference

Product Description: Proceedings of the 1994 world Bank Conference. Evaluation and development with case studies.

By Robert Picciotto (editor) and Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780821334669 | World Bank, October 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Proceedings of the 1994 world Bank Conference.

Evaluating Country Development Policies and Programs: New Approaches for a New Agenda

Product Description: This issue of New Directions for Evaluation deals with the special evaluation problems of programs in the developing world. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic and social development policy and practice has been transformed...read more

By Robert Picciotto and Ray C. Rist

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9780787999476 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: This issue of New Directions for Evaluation deals with the special evaluation problems of programs in the developing world.

Policy Evaluation: Linking Theory to Practice

By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9781852789466 | Edward Elgar Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $325.00

The Democratic Imagination: Dialogues on the Work of Irving Louis Horowitz

Product Description: On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I. L. Horowitz, a group of his mentors, colleagues, and students have come together to examine his work, and also engage in his writings. The work is divided into the major areas of Horowitz's efforts: Theory of Social Practice, The Sociology of Politics, Social Research and Professional Ethics, Nation-Building and Development, Cuba, the Caribbean and Communism; Religion, Culture and the Jewish Enigma, and a final segment on Publishing and the Craft of Writing...read more

By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9781560001744 | Transaction Pub, July 1, 1994, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: On the occasion of the sixty-fifth birthday of I.

Can Governments Learn?: Comparative Perspectives on Evaluation & Organizational Learning

Product Description: There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them. Many citizens view government as inept, arthritic, and dedicated to the preservation of the bureaucratic status quo...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Frans L. Leeuw (editor), Ray C. Rist and Richard C. Sonnichsen (editor)

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9781560001300 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them.

Budgeting, Auditing, Evaluating: Functions and Integration in Seven Governments

Product Description: The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition. As governments the world over work to sustain public policy and develop much needed policy initiatives, there is an increasing need for better budgetary management and sound evaluation of both past and prospective policies...read more

By Andrew Gray (editor), Bill Jenkins (editor), Ray C. Rist (foreword by) and Bob Segsworth (editor)

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9780765807243 | Transaction Pub, January 1, 1992, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The end of the twentieth century is shaping up as a period of volatile change and transition.

Program Evaluation and the Management of Government: Patterns and Prospects Across Eight Nations

Product Description: This account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries - Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland - shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780887382970 | Transaction Pub, January 1, 1990, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries - Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland - shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development.

Policy Issues for the 1990s

Product Description: As the United States prepares for the 1990s, it faces a number of pressing policy issues. Some have simply been put aside during the conservative counter-reform of the 1980s. Others have been addressed during this period, but with mixed results...read more

By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780887382659 | Transaction Pub, November 1, 1989, cover price $95.95 | About this edition: As the United States prepares for the 1990s, it faces a number of pressing policy issues.

Finding Work: Cross National Perspectives on Employment and Training

By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781850001249 | Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1986, cover price $38.00

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9781850001256 | Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1986, cover price $21.00

Policy Studies Review Annual

Product Description: In the tradition of the Policy Studies Review Annual series, Volume Eight continues to offer the best of recent writing and analysis in a number of policy relevant area. Indeed, reflecting the shifting nature of policy debates and public attention, Volume Eight has introduced seven entirely new substantive areas, including such sensitive issues as the viability of the "safety net," information policy, work and labor policy, immigration policy, and environmental policy...read more

By Ray C. Rist

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9780887381164 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 1986, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: In the tradition of the Policy Studies Review Annual series, Volume Eight continues to offer the best of recent writing and analysis in a number of policy relevant area.

9780887380082 | Transaction Pub, November 1, 1984, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Presenting outstanding, carefully selected research and analysis in the evolving field of policy studies, this series provides a selection of the finest policy writing available.

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9780887386732 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 1986, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: In the tradition of the Policy Studies Review Annual series, Volume Eight continues to offer the best of recent writing and analysis in a number of policy relevant area.

Policy Studies: Review Annual 1982

Product Description: The sixth edition of this annual collection of the year's best work in policy studies. Contributions in this volume reflect the increased emphasis on budget conscious and carefully targeted social programmes. Exemplifying a range of analytic and methodological strategies, this edition features studies from Australia, the United States, West Germany, and Great Britain...read more

By Ray C. Rist

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9780803918757 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 1982, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: The sixth edition of this annual collection of the year's best work in policy studies.

Earning and Learning: Youth Employment Policies and Programs

Product Description: 'Earning and Learning is such a thorough description of implementation processes, strategies and program components that the reader feels that it would be possible to operate these programs based on the details contained in the book...read more

By Mary Agnes Hamilton and Ray C. Rist

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9780803917439 | Sage Pubns, December 1, 1981, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: 'Earning and Learning is such a thorough description of implementation processes, strategies and program components that the reader feels that it would be possible to operate these programs based on the details contained in the book.

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9780803917446 | Sage Pubns, June 1, 1981, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: 'Earning and Learning is such a thorough description of implementation processes, strategies and program components that the reader feels that it would be possible to operate these programs based on the details contained in the book.

Confronting Youth Unemployment in the Nineteen Eighties: Phetoric Versus Reality

By Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780080260778 | Pergamon Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $39.50

The Urban School: A Factory for Failure

Product Description: Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ray C. Rist

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9780765809384 | Transaction Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life.

9780262680301, titled "Urban School: A Factory for Failure" | Mit Pr, December 15, 1977, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Ray Rist uses his skills as a participant-observer in the classroom to make us understand the first few years of school experience of one group of children.

Education, Social Science, and the Judicial Process

By Ronald J. Anson and Ray C. Rist

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9780807725320 | Teachers College Pr, March 1, 1978, cover price $9.95

The Invisible Children: School Integration in American Society

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By Ray C. Rist

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9780674465886 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1978, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Book by Rist, Ray C.

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