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Frey, Kathrin; Widmer, Thomas – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
Evidence-based policy-making and other recent reforms in public steering emphasize the role systematic evidence can play in improving decision making and public policies. Increasing deficits heighten the pressure on public authorities to legitimate public spending and to find savings. Existing studies show that the influence of research-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Efficiency, Public Policy
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Blake, Sarah C.; Ottoson, Judith M. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2009
Knowledge utilization is a field crossing many sectors, from agriculture, since the 1920s, to health care today. Evaluators have made long-standing contributions to understanding knowledge utilization. Different models or ways to think about knowledge utilization have evolved to reflect different perspectives, contexts, and stages of the process,…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Effectiveness, Information Dissemination, Evaluation Utilization