The Role of Evaluation in Building Evidence-Based Policy

Larry L. Orr

doi:10.1177/0002716218764299

The Role of Evaluation in Building Evidence-Based Policy

Larry L. Orr

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

Growing recognition that many government programs may be ineffective, or at best of unproven effectiveness, has led to the evidence-based policy movement—an effort to ensure that proposed and existing public programs have been shown to achieve their objectives. Rigorous evaluation is central to this movement. In this article, I briefly review the history of evaluation of social programs and the barriers to the application of effective evaluation to public policy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	51-59
Number of pages	9
Journal	Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Volume	678
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716218764299
State	Published - Jul 1 2018

Keywords

barriers to evaluation
evaluation
evaluation history
evidence-based policy
randomized trials
social experiments

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences(all)

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