POSC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Incrementalism, Government Accountability Office, Unintended Consequences
16 Feb 2017
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Evaluation is an assessment of the effectiveness of a public policy in meeting its objective. Was it supposed to reduce, prevent, curtail something: measurement. I. e. know school suspension rate: analysis. Dimension (depth of understanding: normative dimension. Understanding right/wrong from each other: empirical dimension. Understand what is going on from an application of a quantitative and numerical perspective. Consequences (results of effects: intended consequences. Things we meant to happen: unintended consequences. Helped group you wanted it to help, but also hurt another group from those effects. Impacts (influence of alteration: direct impact, indirect impact, symbolic impacts. Money that we spent purposefully for the evaluation: indirect. Program evaluation: look at the structure of the program, so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es poli(cid:272)y does(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of the (cid:449)ay (cid:449)e set up the program. Process evaluation: how you go about doing things, evaluation of methodology to achieve outcomes. Impact evaluation: what the policy does for the intended target.
