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Citizens' Control of Evaluations

Formulating and Assessing Alternatives

Richard Murray

Swedish Agency for Public Management, Sweden, richard.murray{at}statskontoret.se

Democratic and participatory evaluation raises questions of power. Power lies not only in agenda setting and problem definition but also in formulating alternatives. The latter seems to have been forgotten in the literature on democratic evaluation. This may be partly due to the general neglect of assessing alternatives in evaluations, whether ex ante or ex post. The article distinguishes different forms of democracy and specifies a model of evaluation that is intended to fit within representative democracy. The model is exemplified by an evaluation of a large infrastructure programme in Stockholm, in which environmental organizations took part.

Key Words: alternatives • democratic evaluation • power • representative democracy

Evaluation, Vol. 8, No. 1, 81-100 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1358902002008001488
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