Evaluation and governing in the 21st century : disciplinary measures, transformative possibilities / Deirdre Niamh Duffy.
Duffy, Dierdre Niamh.
2017
HN18.3
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Title Evaluation and governing in the 21st century : disciplinary measures, transformative possibilities / Deirdre Niamh Duffy.
Author Duffy, Dierdre Niamh.
ISBN 9781137545138 (electronic book)
1137545135 (electronic book)
1137545127
9781137545121
Publication Details London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number HN18.3
Dewey Decimal Classification 361.2/5
Summary This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative of evidence-based policy-making, arguing instead that evaluation research is used to discipline and control. At the same time, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, this book argues that evaluation can be reclaimed and facilitate transformation. In bringing these theoretically rich discussions to bear on the domain of contemporary evaluation, the author provokes an alternative reading of the relationship between research and governing, emphasising how knowledge production has historically been manipulated by elites towards their own political ends. As the debate around elite’s use of research expands globally, this book is a nuanced interjection into both established evidence-based policy and emergent narratives of ‘post-truth’. Challenging and provocative, this innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of social and public policy, and governance and public management.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave pivot.
Palgrave studies in science, knowledge, and policy.
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Preface: Evaluation and Governing in Two Quotes or When the Arithmetician met the Curator; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Abstract ; What Is This Book About?; Understanding Genealogy; A Broad Taxonomy of Evaluation Science; Evaluation as Assessment of ValueMerit; Evaluation as a Realist(ic) 'Science'; Evaluation as an Actionable Science; A Critical Sociological Perspective on Evaluation and Governing; References; Chapter 2 Understanding Evaluation in the UK; Abstract ; Introduction; The Operationalisation of Evaluation in Youth Work; Attitudes to Evaluation

A Genealogy of UK EvaluationNew Public Management; ICTInformational Theory; A Different Discourse of Evaluation and Governing; References; Chapter 3 Disciplinary Measures; Abstract ; Introduction; Understanding the Exercise of Governing; Research and Governing; A Critical Appraisal of Evaluation and Governing in the United Kingdom; Governing by Goals and the UK Evaluation Agenda for Youth Work; Neuroliberalism, Evaluation and the National Students Survey; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Transformative Possibilities; Abstract ; Beyond Discipline: Transformation and Knowledge Production

Foucault, Ethics and the 'Will to Knowledge'Deleuze and Transcendental Empiricism; Evaluation and Transformative Possibilities; Reclaiming Formation: Chemipolitics and Copying in Evaluation; Reclaiming Measurement and Numbers; Reclaiming Imagined Futurities; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Abstract ; Reference; References; Index

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