Evaluation in the Post-Truth World
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Evaluation in the Post-Truth World

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Evaluation in the Post-Truth World

About this book

Evaluation in the Post-Truth World explores the relationship between the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation and other forms of research evidence, and the post-truth phenomena of antiscience sentiments combined with illiberal tendencies of the present day. Rather than offer a checklist on how to deal with post-truth, the experts found herein wish to raise awareness and reflection throughout policy circles on the factors that influence our assessment and policy-related work in such a challenging environment. Journeying alongside the editor and contributors, readers benefit from three guiding questions to help identify specific challenges but tools to deal with such challenges: How are policy problems conceptualized in the current political climate? What is the relationship between expertise and decision-making in today's political circumstances? How complex has evaluation become as a social practice?

Evaluation in the Post-Truth World will benefit evaluation practitioners at the program and project levels, as well as policy analysts and scholars interested in applications of evaluation in the public policy domain.

Chapters 6, and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half-Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Introduction: Questions rather than alternative facts
  11. 1 Co-creating evaluation for policy relevance: The challenges of the post-truth world
  12. 2 Free trade, populism, and post-truth An evaluation perspective
  13. 3 Evidence as enlightenment versus evidence as certainty: Appropriate uses of evaluative information to inform policy in a post-truth world
  14. 4 Lies and politics: Until death do us part …
  15. 5 Heuristics and biases in the post-truth era—a piece of advice for policy-makers
  16. 6 In search of effective communication with decision-makers for the post-truth era Discourse strategies from pre-imperial China
  17. 7 Do citizens even want to hear the truth?: Public attitudes toward evidence-informed policymaking
  18. 8 Sustaining momentum for evidence-informed policymaking: The case of the US government
  19. 9 Participatory budgeting, evaluation, and the post-truth world: Where are we, and where do we go from here?
  20. 10 Evidence use in a post-truth world A unique opportunity for evaluators?
  21. Conclusions: Some suggestions for evaluators’ daily work in a post-truth world
  22. Index