Directors of the largest and most active executive branch evaluation offices assessed the impacts of the first year of federal government reinvention. They reported an increase in customer focus, little change in evaluation flexibility and privatization, and little change or a decrease in evaluation activity, authority, funding, and staffing. These findings suggest an erosion of government capacity to conduct evaluations that is expected to Wargo intensify as the Republican congress and the Democratic administration race to outdo each other in reinventing government prior to the upcoming presidential election.
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