Preface: The Evaluation Enterprise, or Evaluation as an Enterprise - Nicoletta Stame and Jan-Eric Furubo PART I - From Program Evaluation to the Evaluation Society 1. Understanding the Evaluation Enterprise - Jean-Eric Furubo 2. The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and Evalution - Nicoletta Stame 3. The Skeptical Turn in Evaluation - Peter Dahler-Larsen PART II - The Evalution Enterprise 4. From Law to Reality: A Critical View on the Institutionalization of Evaluation in the Swiss Canton of Geneva's Parliament - Katia Horber-Papazian and Christian Rosser 5. Evaluation Overload and Evaluation Underload - Rolf Sandahl 6. Accountability's Two Solitude and the Questions It Raises: Accountability to Whom? By Whom? And for What? - Burt Perrin 7. Italian Evalution Policy: Centralization and Judicially Enforced Accountability - Mita Marra PART III - The Management of the Enterprise 8. Getting Value for Money?: A Critical Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Evaluation - Kim Forss 9. The Journey to a Professional Designation for Evaluators in Canada - Marie-Hèlène Adrien and Lauren-Victoria Hellrung 10. The Concerted Effort to Professionalize Evaluation Practice: Whither Are We Bound? - Thomas A. Schawandt 11. The Commercial Side of Evaluation: Evaluation as an Industry and as a Professional Service - Stefan Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire and Christina A. Christie Conclusion: Towards a Better Understanding of the Evaluation Enterprise - Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame The Constitutive Effects of Evaluation A Power Game Index