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Title: Really?
Review: One phrase by Evert Vedung on the definition on evaluation should be enough to clarify my review title: "Evaluation is retrospective assessment of public interventions. Prospective appraisals (...), are not included in my definition."(p.7).Even considering the narrowest interpretation of the term "public policy cycles" as solely formulation-implementation-evaluation phases, it doesn't seem to me that most writers in the area cope with the idea of an evaluation phase so reductionist.
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