It is believed that public sector auditing leads to a more efficient and effective performance
of the public sector. This assumption recently has been challenged by adherents of the new …

This article presents an approach to systematic reviews that combines the Campbell
Collaboration Crime and Justice standards and the realist notion of contexts-mechanisms-outcomes …

Realist evaluation has, over the past two decades, become a widely used approach in
evaluation. The cornerstone of realist evaluation is to answer the question: What works, for whom, …

Administrative reform has led to a strong increase in the use of performance assessment
instruments in the public sector. However, this has also led to several unintended …

There is growing interest in the concept of ‘‘mechanism’’ across many areas of the social
sciences. In the field of program and policy evaluation, a number of scholars have also …

This paper discusses methods for reconstructing theories underlying programs and policies.
It describes three approaches. One is empirical–analytical in nature and focuses on …

The Network of Networks for Impact Evaluation (NONIE) was established in 2006 to foster
more and better impact evaluations by its membership. NONIE uses the DAC definition, …

Increasingly, in the world of evaluation, `systems of evaluation' have been developed.This
article outlines four criteria that help characterize such systems. One criterion is the existence …

There is continual concern about the ability of governments to perform the duties and
responsibilities that their citizens have come to expect from them. Many citizens view government …

Dutch Abstract: Juridische documenten zoals wetgeving, jurisprudentie, beleidsdocumenten
en academische publicaties kunnen worden gekarakteriseerd als legal big data, bestaande …