La apropiación de la evaluación por las administraciones

The past 30 years has seen a gradual internalisation of program and policy evaluation into the machinery of government. This happens either through the evaluation function being taken on by administrators themselves, or by those administrators stipulating and proscribing how the evaluation is conducted and for what purposes. This poses important questions for democracy and for the citizen. This article examines the consequences of this 'capture' by the administrative system by looking at two examples: one, taken from the field of international development; the other from a government agency commissioning of an evaluation of one of their programs.