Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for
understanding and challenging the world (s) we inhabit, even in–or rather because of–the …

Youth work's informal and youth-centred nature raises challenges for evaluation, challenges
that are intensified by the growing dominance of measurement, market values and …

What is the role of expertise in reproducing austerity and how might this be challenged by
the left? The implementation of austerity policies, the widespread public backlash to these …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of South Africa's national freight
demand model and related logistics cost models, and to illustrate the application of the …

The need for, and possibilities of, a second-order shift in evaluation practice are explored.
Second-order evaluation practice enables an evaluator to improve practice as a skilled …

Polycentric climate governance holds enormous promise, but to unleash its full force, policy
evaluation needs a stronger role in it. This book develops Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom's …

How do education policy processes and networks operate in sectors that have been
chronically defunded? This article discusses elements of contestation and doubt in the …

Over the last decades, evidence‐based public policy has emerged as a concept and field of
research, presenting methodological approaches from the natural sciences as the ideal …

In recent years, investment in youth services has been contingent on the measurement of
predefined outcomes as 'proof'of effectiveness. However, this approach to impact …

The concept of framing implies that policy issues can be viewed from different perspectives.
The choice of perspective influences the way societal phenomena are understood and the …