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  • The Pornography Controversy

    Changing Moral Standards in American Life

    by Ray Rist ...
    Discusses governmental responsibilities and individual liberties, ethical problems of moral judgement, and legal considerations in defining and suppressing obscene material. ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Carrots, Sticks and Sermons

    Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation

    by Ray Rist ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the field and clearly shows how public policy instruments are classified, packaged, and chosen, while highlighting the role evaluation plays in the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System

    A Handbook for Development Practitioners

    by Jody Zall Kusek, Ray C. Rist ...
    An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and delivery of tangible results. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Urban School

    A Factory for Failure

    by Ray C. Rist ...
    Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life. Such concerns date back at least to the nineteenth century. A thread that weaves its way through the critiques of American elementary and secondary ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Program Evaluation and the Management of Government

    by Ray Rist, Eliot Freidson ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    This book appears at an opportune time in the history of evaluation. Its detailed and up-to-date account of the organization and use of evaluation in eight Western, democratic countries—Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Switzerland—shows how evaluation functions at different levels of development. Focusing on the national or federal level of government, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Restructuring American Education

    Innovations and Alternatives

    Edited by Ray Rist ...
    Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all—the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for contemporary schools have not lived up to our expectations. The essence of the criticism reflected in the essays in this volume is that America's dual educational goals—free inquiry and social mobility-are not being met. Instead of producing enlightened ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence

    Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future

    Edited by Ray C. Rist ...
    The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but three critical areas presently being impacted means that long-held assumptions are no longer true, that the past is not prologue, and that the future is not clear. And enter into this unstable present the discipline of evaluation-a discipline formed and shaped in the past fifty years of stability, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Policy Studies: Review Annual

    Volume 6

    Edited by Ray Rist ...
    The sixth edition of this annual collection of the year's best work in policy studies. Contributions in this volume reflect the increased emphasis on budget conscious and carefully targeted social programmes. Exemplifying a range of analytic and methodological strategies, this edition features studies from Australia, the United States, West Germany, and Great Britain. ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation

    Changing Perspectives

    Edited by Ray C. Rist, Frederic P. Martin, Ana María Fernandez ...
    The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are poor nor what can be done structurally and institutionally to reduce and eliminate it. The various chapters illustrate in ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation

    Changing Perspectives

    Edited by Ray C. Rist, Frederic P. Martin, Ana María Fernandez ...
    The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are poor nor what can be done structurally and institutionally to reduce and eliminate it. The various chapters illustrate in ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19

    Edited by Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo, Ray C. Rist ...
    Did evaluation meet the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis? How were evaluation practices, architectures, and values affected? Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19 is the first to offer a broad canvas that explores government responses and ideas to tackle the challenges that evaluation practice faces in preparing for the next global crisis. Practitioners and established academic experts in the ... Read more

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  • Ten Steps To A ResultsBased Monitoring And Evaluation System: A Handbook For Development Practitioners

    by Zall Kusek Jody; Rist Ray ...
    An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and delivery of tangible results. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD