Reports on Topic Areas What Have We Learned About the Politics of Program Evaluation?

Bernstein, I.N. , and Freeman, H.E. (1975). Academic and entrepreneurial research: The consequences of diversity in federal evaluation studies. New York: Russell Sage.

Chelimsky, E. (1977a). Proceedings of a symposium on the use of evaluation by federal agencies. McLean, VA: MITRE Corporation.

Chelimsky, E. ( 1977b). Analysis of the proceedings of a symposium on the use of evaluation by federal agencies. McLean, VA: MITRE Corporation.

Chelimsky, E. (1985a). Program evaluation: Patterns and directions. Washington, DC: American Society for Public Administration .

Chelimsky, E. (in press). The politics of program evaluation. In E. Palumbo (Ed.). Sage yearbook of politics and public policy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Chelimsky, E. (1985b). Program evaluation: Patterns and directions. Washington, DC: American Society for Public Administration .

Cronbach, L. , and associates. ( 1980). Toward reform of program evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Easton, D. (1957). An approach to the analysis of political systems . In World Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Florio, D.H. , Behrmann, M.M. , and Goltz, D.L. (1979). What do policy makers think of educational research and evaluation? Or do they? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 61-87.

Leonard, H. (1986). Checks unbalanced: The quiet side of public spending . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Lindblom, C.E. (1968). The policy making process. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Stromsdorfer, E.W. (1981). Social science analysis and the formulation of public policy: What the president "knows "and "how "he comes to "know "it . Paper presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Social Experimentation, Hilton Head, SC.

Sundquist, J.L. (1978). Research brokerage: The weak link. In Knowledge and policy: The uncertain connection. Washington, DC: National Research Council.

U.S. General Accounting Office. (1984). Designing evaluations. Transfer paper 4. Washington, DC : U.S. General Accounting Office.

U.S. General Accounting Office. (1986). Teenage pregnancy: 500,000 births a year but few tested programs. GATO/PEMD-86-16BR . Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting office.

Weiss, C.H. (1973). Where politics and evaluation research meet. Evaluation, 1(3):37-45.

Weiss, C.H. (1979). The many meanings of research utilization. In E. Chelimsky ( 1985). Program Evaluation: Patterns and Directions. Washington, DC: American Society for Public Administration.