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Approaches in Evaluation - Responsive and participatory approaches - Critical points to responsive and participatory approaches

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Are all critical points relevant to all participatory approaches?

Not all critical points relevant to all participatory approaches because the approaches inclusde different ideas.

What is the utilization-focused evaluation criticized for?

The utilization-focused evaluation is criticized:

for its lack of philosophical foundation and
for its tendency to more of less quietly team up with those in power to secure utilization;
if utilization is given absolute priority, evaluation is doomed to occupy itself with small adjustments rather than major reforms or social transformations.

What controversy is there in participatory evaluation?

To share control of the evaluation process is a more controversial matter than most evaluators will admit.

Although evaluators believe that they 'share' control of the evaluation process with stakeholders, do stakeholders feel that they assume control correspondingly?
But also at what point should the standards and criteria autorized by a representative democracy not be adhered to?

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Evaluation and public management

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