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Examining the degree to which evaluators seek power for their own interests, this book asks questions such as: Can we really trust evaluation to be a force for the good? To what degree can we talk about self-interest in evaluation, and is this self-interest something that contradicts other interests such as ""the benefit of society""?

Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the worldAEs economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can evaluation contribute in times of turbulence?

Information--regular, systematic, reliable--is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management

The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization is a welcome corrective to the tendency to present globalization as a homogenous concept, and the failure to describe how it operates in specific regions