The Politics of program evaluation / 
Dennis J. Palumbo, editor 
 - Newbury Park, Calif. :  Sage Publications,  c1987 [reprinted 1989] 
 - 309 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and indexes. 
<br/><br/>The political context: Politics and evaluation / Dennis J. Palumbo. Where politics and evaluation research meet / Carol H. Weiss -- The policy cycle: Linking program evaluation to user needs / Eleanor Chelimsky. Evaluation's political inherency / Michael Quinn Patton. What should evaluation mean to implementation? / Angela Browne and Aaron Wildavsky. Policy termination as a political phenomenon / Peter DeLeon -- Politics and research methods: The countenances of fourth-generation evaluation / Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln. The influence of theory on what we see / Lawrence A. Scaff and Helen M. Ingram. The political uses of evaluation research / Susan J. Tolchin. The politics of meaning and policy inquiry / Rita Mae Kelly. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803927363 0803927371 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Policy sciences.<br/>Evaluation research (Social action programs)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.61  / POL 1989