Evaluation of Government Performance and Public Policies in Spain
This paper covers selective aspects of Spain's experience in evaluating government performance and public policies. Rather than a cohesive evaluation system, there is instead a constellation of organizations, with evaluation mandates and/or pr...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/424771468103143549/Evaluation-of-government-performance-and-public-policies-in-Spain http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27913 |
Summary: | This paper covers selective aspects of
Spain's experience in evaluating government performance
and public policies. Rather than a cohesive evaluation
system, there is instead a constellation of organizations,
with evaluation mandates and/or practices, which are not
interrelated. These organizations and their respective
practices have been evolving without coordination over the
past three decades. An evaluation culture is slowly
emerging, amid different conceptual approaches used by
different organizations that are managing and/or conducting
evaluations. Evaluation activity has been taking place in
Spain for years, with a marked acceleration and qualitative
shift since 2005. Despite Spain's standing as an
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) country as well as a European Union (EU) country, it
still has not developed a consolidated evaluation system.
This fact points out how long-term and complex is the task
of institutionalizing an evaluation system. Finally, this
paper contains several website addresses where readers can
obtain additional information on aspects of the paper that
most interest them and to follow the Spanish experience as
it unfolds. |
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