Concern-Focused Evaluation for Ambiguous and Conflicting Policies
An Approach From the Environmental Field
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12470997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurent Mermet (AgroParisTech, UMR CIRED, Paris, France, corresponding author), Raphaël Billé (Sciences Po, Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), Paris, France), Maya Leroy (0000-0003-1532-3470, AgroParisTech, ERFI, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-198 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1098214010366047 |
| OpenAlex | W2168709535 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
Environment and sustainable development show how policies are becoming ever more complex and ambiguous. This trend calls for new evaluation approaches. They need to be more clearly focused on specific, explicit concerns. They must be driven by a strategic concept of use to overcome the vulnerability to manipulation of many integrative, essentially procedural, approaches to policy making and evaluation. This article presents a conceptual framework for such evaluations and a four-step approach: defining the focal concern; developing criteria and synthesizing observations on the extent to which the focal concern is met; identifying and assessing all policies contributing to this outcome; and complementing this with the evaluation of policies specifically aimed at meeting the focal concern. Examples are taken essentially from wetland-related policies in France and Senegal. The article discusses how this approach tackles some crucial issues in evaluation research and practice and advocates closer connections between evaluation and critical research on policies
Business · Computer security · Conceptual framework · Economics · Engineering ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Field (mathematics · Geography · Management science · Outcome (game theory · Political science · Process management · Risk analysis (engineering · Sociology · Sustainable development · Vulnerability (computing · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |