出版社：Servicio central de publicacion. Gobierno Vasco
摘要：The aim of policy analysis and evaluation is to provide objective information to
program managers, decisions makers and users on the costs and effects of public
programmes. The following case —a program developed under the framework of the
European initiative EQUAL— illustrates this idea. It is about a European
programme in which the responsible administration manages correctly and achieves
acceptable results. However, an investigation based on detailed interviews to
thirty randomly selected users shows that the usual standardised evaluation does
not respond to fundamental questions about the public value of the programme. It
can be questioned therefore that, the evaluations which have developed in Europe
during the last years is able to adapt to each project and produce useful
information. The evidence they collect may be useful for the basic comparison of
projects but not to take strategic decisions.
