NIIRANEN, Vuokko <br/><br/>
The many purposes of performance evaluation 

 - Philadelphia :  Routledge,  ago./set. 2008 
<br/><br/> In the public sector evaluation is frequently described as the development of operations and a tool for management. The significance of its use in directing information from the state to the municipalities and as a form of management of networks of actors is an increasingly important feature. Thus we can contemplate evaluation as a policy mechanism. When financing local welfare services the state will, naturally, become more interested in the performance of their functions. In the relations between the state and the municipalities the direction of evaluation can be considered as a new form of direction. Common performance evaluation is discussed, but is it even feasible, given that the area of application of evaluation information and the conceptions of meanings differ so greatly?