Premium
Evaluation in France, a Component of Territorial Public Action
Author(s) -
Fontaine Joseph,
Warin Philippe
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9299.00260
Subject(s) - action (physics) , face (sociological concept) , component (thermodynamics) , subject (documents) , point (geometry) , political science , public administration , sociology , computer science , social science , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , library science , thermodynamics
Evaluation practices developed in France, especially by local authorities and above all by regional councils, provide an interesting opportunity to examine from the inside the way public policies are constructed. Taking evaluation practices seriously as a subject of study reminds us, in a way, of the necessary empiricism needed to analyse public policies. At a time when this discipline experiences, at least in France, a surge in conceptual proposals, the point of view expressed here aims to point out the necessary modesty we have to show in the face of the complexity of the subjects studied and of the usefulness of evaluation practices to explain territorial public policies.