The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in Europe

1. The institutionalisation of evaluation - Theoretical background, analytical concept and methods. Reinhard Stockmann and Wolfgang Meyer.- 2. Denmark. Peter Dahler-Larsen and Hanne F. Hansen.- 3. Finland. Petri Uusikylä, Pertti Ahonen, Nina K. Hietakangas and Johanna Nurmi.- 4. The Netherlands. Carolien Klein Haarhuis.- 5. Belgium. Valérie Pattyn and Bart De Peuter.- 6. France. Benoit Simon and Clément Lacouette-Fougère.- 7. Germany. Reinhard Stockmann and Wolfgang Meyer.- 8. Switzerland. Thomas Widmer.- 9. Ireland. Richard Boyle, Joe O'Hara, Gerry McNamara and Martin Brown.- 10. United Kingdom. Tracey Wond.- 11. Italy. Erica Melloni.- 12. Spain. María Bustelo.- 13. Portugal. Ana Diogo.- 14. Czechia. Oto Potluka and Jiri Remr.- 15. Latvia. Krisjanis Veitners.- 16. Poland. Weronika Felcis, Monika Bartosiewicz-Niziolek, Piotr Strzeboszewski, Agnieszka Szczurek, Katarzyna Hermann-Pawlowska, Seweryn Krupnik and Beata Ciezka.- 17. Romania. Diana Jacob and Nicolae Toderas.- 18. EU. Roland Blomeyer and Ansgar Eussner.- 19. The institutionalisation of evaluation in Europe: a synthesis. Reinhard Stockmann, Wolfgang Meyer and Lena Taube.- 20. Appendix.

Reinhard Stockmann is Professor for Sociology at Saarland University, Germany. He is Founder and Director of the Center for Evaluation (CEval), Managing Director of two Master of Evaluation programs, Executive Editor of the German Journal of Evaluation (ZfEv) and Founding member of the German Society for Evaluation (DeGEval). He is an evaluation specialist in the field of development cooperation, education, vocational training, environmental policy and foreign cultural policy.
Wolfgang Meyer is Assistant Professor at Saarland University, Germany and Adjunct Professor at Uganda Technology and Management University, Kampala, Uganda. He is Vice-Director of the Centre for Evaluation (CEval), Founding Member of the German Evaluation Society (DeGEval), Sociologist with a Focus on Empirical Methodology and Evaluation Specialist in the Field of Environment, Labour Market and Regional Development.
Lena Taube was previously a research associate at the Center for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University, Germany, where she focused on research regarding the institutionalisation of evaluation as a means to good governance. She is currently working at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) engaged with evaluating human rights in German development aid.

"Thanks to its richness, this highly valuable collection is the standard reference for anybody who wants to get an idea of what evaluation looks like in Europe, and the upcoming volumes will do the same for America, Africa, and Asia." (Fritz Sager, Governance, Issue (1-2), 2021)