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Negotiating Truth, Beauty, and Justice: A Politically Responsive Approach
Author(s) -
Azzam Tarek,
Levine Bret
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20085
Subject(s) - negotiation , technocracy , economic justice , frame (networking) , beauty , affect (linguistics) , general partnership , management science , engineering ethics , sociology , public relations , political science , computer science , politics , law , social science , economics , engineering , telecommunications , communication
Abstract Evaluation design and implementation are not technocratic exercises, but are processes that require negotiations with stakeholders and careful design. This chapter focuses on the nontechnical factors that affect these processes and discusses cases and studies to illustrate their influence. The chapter concludes by introducing the concept of politically responsive evaluation as an organizing frame to help evaluators consider some of the nontechnical issues that influence evaluations.