Peter van der Knaap
Biographic Data
| ID | 6686014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter van der Knaap |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | van der Knaap |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER KNAAP P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Public Administration of the Erasmus University (PO Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4258-5310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Makes Diplomacy Successful
How countries engage diplomatically with the rest of the world is at the heart of the work of ministries of foreign affairs ( MFA s). In recent years, IOB – the Independent Evaluation Directorate of the Netherlands MFA – has conducted many evaluations that have addressed the country’s diplomatic engagement. These studies have yielded significant findings on what makes diplomatic engagement successful. This practitioner’s essay, with characteristi…
Positive evaluation and learning
Traditionally, many academics and practitioners seek the added value of evaluation primarily to highlight errors and shortcomings. As a consequence, evaluative inquiry risks becoming associated with failure and, therefore, best to be avoided. It seems that, in this respect, evaluators may be their own worst enemies: how much of the perpetual questions and disappointments that often still seem to plague our craft – perceived lack of relevance and,…
Sense and complexity
Many policy programmes yield disappointing results. Like policy evaluation, performance audit aims to help policy makers by uncovering barriers to success and suggesting improvements. Traditionally, performance audit relies heavily on policy objectives, norms, and criteria while focusing on the responsibility of a specific government entity (e.g. a ministry or an agency). More recently, however, performance auditors have recognized the need to be…
Responsive Evaluation and Performance Management
Worldwide, governments are under increasing pressure to deliver results. There is general recognition of the importance of performance measurement and a results-oriented focus for effective public management. The shift from inputs to outputs and outcomes is accompanied by an increased use of performance indicators and policy targets. Critics point to the negative effects of static forms of performance-measuring and governance: simplification, res…
Theory-Based Evaluation and Learning
Originated in the 1970s, decried in the 1990s, theory-based evaluation recaptured debate at the European Evaluation Society conference in 2002. The promise is that the set-up, implementation, delivery and utilization of evaluation research may be facilitated by taking the assumptions and objectives of public policy as a starting point. In addition, a theory-based approach is considered to be valuable for a government that wants to learn, whilst p…
Performance Management and Policy Evaluation in the Netherlands
In June 1999, the Netherlands government presented its new proposals on the structure, content and presentation of budget documents. The new style government budget should give answers to three simple questions: ‘What do we want to achieve? What will we do to achieve it? What will be the costs of our efforts?’After the budgetary year, the government annual report will have to answer the logical equivalents to these questions: ‘Have we achieved wh…
Policy Evaluation and Learning
But what experience and history teach us is this, that nations and governments have never learned anything from history. (G. W. F. Hegel, 1837, cited in Feyerabend 1978) Contemporary literature on policy evaluation challenges the 'traditional', rational-objectivist model of policy evaluation. Instead, an argumentative- subjectivist approach is forwarded, conceiving of policy-making as an ongoing dialogue, in which both governmental and societal a…
Policy Evaluation and Learning
But what experience and history teach us is this, that nations and governments have never learned anything from history. (G. W. F. Hegel, 1837, cited in Feyerabend 1978) Contemporary literature on policy evaluation challenges the 'traditional', rational-objectivist model of policy evaluation. Instead, an argumentative- subjectivist approach is forwarded, conceiving of policy-making as an ongoing dialogue, in which both governmental and societal a…
Theory-Based Evaluation and Learning
Originated in the 1970s, decried in the 1990s, theory-based evaluation recaptured debate at the European Evaluation Society conference in 2002. The promise is that the set-up, implementation, delivery and utilization of evaluation research may be facilitated by taking the assumptions and objectives of public policy as a starting point. In addition, a theory-based approach is considered to be valuable for a government that wants to learn, whilst p…
Responsive Evaluation and Performance Management
Worldwide, governments are under increasing pressure to deliver results. There is general recognition of the importance of performance measurement and a results-oriented focus for effective public management. The shift from inputs to outputs and outcomes is accompanied by an increased use of performance indicators and policy targets. Critics point to the negative effects of static forms of performance-measuring and governance: simplification, res…
Performance Management and Policy Evaluation in the Netherlands
In June 1999, the Netherlands government presented its new proposals on the structure, content and presentation of budget documents. The new style government budget should give answers to three simple questions: ‘What do we want to achieve? What will we do to achieve it? What will be the costs of our efforts?’After the budgetary year, the government annual report will have to answer the logical equivalents to these questions: ‘Have we achieved wh…
Positive evaluation and learning
Traditionally, many academics and practitioners seek the added value of evaluation primarily to highlight errors and shortcomings. As a consequence, evaluative inquiry risks becoming associated with failure and, therefore, best to be avoided. It seems that, in this respect, evaluators may be their own worst enemies: how much of the perpetual questions and disappointments that often still seem to plague our craft – perceived lack of relevance and,…
Policy Evaluation and Learning
But what experience and history teach us is this, that nations and governments have never learned anything from history. (G. W. F. Hegel, 1837, cited in Feyerabend 1978) Contemporary literature on policy evaluation challenges the 'traditional', rational-objectivist model of policy evaluation. Instead, an argumentative- subjectivist approach is forwarded, conceiving of policy-making as an ongoing dialogue, in which both governmental and societal a…
Performance Management and Policy Evaluation in the Netherlands
In June 1999, the Netherlands government presented its new proposals on the structure, content and presentation of budget documents. The new style government budget should give answers to three simple questions: ‘What do we want to achieve? What will we do to achieve it? What will be the costs of our efforts?’After the budgetary year, the government annual report will have to answer the logical equivalents to these questions: ‘Have we achieved wh…
Theory-Based Evaluation and Learning
Originated in the 1970s, decried in the 1990s, theory-based evaluation recaptured debate at the European Evaluation Society conference in 2002. The promise is that the set-up, implementation, delivery and utilization of evaluation research may be facilitated by taking the assumptions and objectives of public policy as a starting point. In addition, a theory-based approach is considered to be valuable for a government that wants to learn, whilst p…
Responsive Evaluation and Performance Management
Worldwide, governments are under increasing pressure to deliver results. There is general recognition of the importance of performance measurement and a results-oriented focus for effective public management. The shift from inputs to outputs and outcomes is accompanied by an increased use of performance indicators and policy targets. Critics point to the negative effects of static forms of performance-measuring and governance: simplification, res…
Sense and complexity
Many policy programmes yield disappointing results. Like policy evaluation, performance audit aims to help policy makers by uncovering barriers to success and suggesting improvements. Traditionally, performance audit relies heavily on policy objectives, norms, and criteria while focusing on the responsibility of a specific government entity (e.g. a ministry or an agency). More recently, however, performance auditors have recognized the need to be…
Positive evaluation and learning
Traditionally, many academics and practitioners seek the added value of evaluation primarily to highlight errors and shortcomings. As a consequence, evaluative inquiry risks becoming associated with failure and, therefore, best to be avoided. It seems that, in this respect, evaluators may be their own worst enemies: how much of the perpetual questions and disappointments that often still seem to plague our craft – perceived lack of relevance and,…
What Makes Diplomacy Successful
How countries engage diplomatically with the rest of the world is at the heart of the work of ministries of foreign affairs ( MFA s). In recent years, IOB – the Independent Evaluation Directorate of the Netherlands MFA – has conducted many evaluations that have addressed the country’s diplomatic engagement. These studies have yielded significant findings on what makes diplomatic engagement successful. This practitioner’s essay, with characteristi…
Political science (7 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Management science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works) · Law (3 works)