Preface 1 - The coming tansformations in evaluation - Eleanor Chelimsky Part I: Evaluation - yesterday and today 2 - Lessons learned in evaluation over the past 25 years - Thomas D. Cook 3 - The political environment of evaluation and what it means for the development of the field - Eleanor Chelimsky Part II: Auditing and evaluation 4 - Evaluation as an essential component of "value-for-money" - L. Denis Desautels 5 - Auditing and evaluation in Sweden - Onga-Britt Ahlenius 6 - Performance auditing: traveler's tales - Christopher Pollit and Hilkka Summa 7 - Evaluation and auditing in state legislatures: meeting the client's needs - Roger A. Brooks Part III: Performance measurement and evaluation 8 - Trends in performance measurement: challenges for evaluators - Joseph S. Wholey 9 - Performance measurement in the United Kingdom(1985-1995 - Caroline Mawhood Part IV: International evaluation 10 - Evaluating global issues in a community setting - Nasafumi Nagao 11 - The development of evaluation in the people's Republic of China - Hong Hongi and Ray C. Rist 12 - Critical comments on evaluation reserch in Denmark - Finn Hansson 13 - Evaluation, markets, and institutions in the reform agenda of developing countries - Eduardo Wiesner 14 - Evaluation in the World Bank: antecedents, instruments, and concepts - Robert Picciotto Part V: New topics for evaluation 15 - Evaluating human rights violations - Ognacio Cano 16 - Lessons of immigration policy and the role of reserch - John Nieuwenhuysen 17 - Tracing gender issues through institutional change and program implementation at the World Bank - Josette Murphy 18 - Understanding the impact of development projects on women: the Tunisia institutional development fund project - Michael Bamberger 19 - The analysis and evaluation of foreign aid - Kristina Svensson 20 - Evaluating the U. S. nuclear triad - Kwai-Cheung Chan and Jonathan R. Tumin 21 - Evaluation, nuclear power plant remediation and redesign, and russian policy making after Chernobyl - Vladimir Novikoi 22 - The independent evaluation of the global environment facility pilot phase - W. Haven North 23 - Environmental changes and their measurement: what data should we collect and what collaborative systems do we need for linking knowledge to action? - Charles A. Zraket and William Clark Part VI: A sampler of the current methodological tool hit 24 - Multimethod evaluations: using case studies together with other methods - Lois-ellin Datta 25 - Cross-design synthesis: concept and application - Judith A. Droitcour 26 - Reserch synthesis for public health policy: experience of the institute of medicine - Michael A. Stoto 27 - Empowerment evaluation and accreditation in higher education - David M. Fetterman 28 - Cluster evaluation - James R. Sanders 29 - An introduction to scientific realist evaluation - Ray Dawson and Nick Tilley 30 - Single-case evaluation in British social services - Mansoor A. F. Kazi 31 - Twenty-one years old and counting: the interrupted time series comes of age - Robert G. Orwin Part VII: An enduring argument about the purpose of evaluation 32 - Advocacy in evaluation: a necessary evil? - Robert E. Stake 33 - Truth and objectivity in evaluation - Michael Scriwen