Public policies and implementation evaluation
Keywords:
Implementation, Public Policies, Policy Analysis, Evaluation, ContextAbstract
The widespread conceptions of implementation as mere administrative and managerial translation of previously for-mulated and adopted policies, and of evaluation as measurement of the intervention effects or of its conformity, present serious limitations. They hinder our understanding of what takes place between planning and its observable effects, implying a reductionism of the political processes involved. This article aims at narrowing the existing gap in the literature in Portuguese language on public policies’ implementation and evaluation, offering an overview of the international literature in the fields of Public Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation. First, the article considers the main debates concerning implementation, taking into account the different generations of studies in this field. Sec-ond, it discusses concepts and perspectives regarding evaluation and its models for context analysis. In conclusion, the article points out that program evaluation cannot be restricted to a ‘managerial’ perspective. According to the authors, challenging the notions of technical rationality and linearity of the processes enhances our interpretative and explana-tory power to understand the political phenomena involved in policy implementation and evaluation.
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