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Introduction, Evaluation in the public arena / Peter Dahler-Larsen and Jonathan D. Breul

Evaluation and political communication in the French Public Employment Service / Jean-Claude Barbier

Dissemination of evaluation reports in newspapers : the case of CEPP evaluations in Geneva, Switzerland / Katia Horber-Papazian and Michael Bützer

Community perspectives on the preparation and reporting of public sector performance indicators / Peter Wilkins

Who decides if and how evaluative information reaches the public area? : the case of school performance information in Ireland / Richard Boyle

Framing of public evaluation data : transparency and openness in Danish schools / Vibeke Normann Andersen and Peter Dahler-Larsen

Using evaluative knowledge for policy design : a case study of the Swiss addiction policy / Markus Spinatsch

Growing use of performance information in the budget process in the United States : the convergence of performance budgeting and the digital transformation / Jonathan D. Breul

Creating public arenas for evaluative information on the Internet : experience from e-democracy in local governments / Olaf Rieper

Does citizen participation in the evaluation processes make any difference? : with special reference to the evaluation of government policies and programs in the Korean government / Myoung-Soo Kim

Evaluation and exclusion from the public arena : the case of the British deaf community / Sarah C. E. Batterbury

Calling citizens to deliberate on disputed policy issues : implications for evaluations / Jacques Toulemond, François Mouterde, and Jean Marc Bernardini

Afterword, Bringing evaluation into public life

or bringing public life into evaluation : making sense of this new era / Ray C. Rist.

Communication in politics > Case studies.

Government publicity > Case studies.

Internet in public administration > Case studies.

Political participation > Case studies.