PPAS 3190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Treasury Board, Think Tank, United Kingdom Cabinet Committee

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 3190
• Professor: Sirvan Karimi

Document Summary

Background to evaluation: evaluation has acquired a much more defined definition. When the policy is put in practice you have a program easier to evaluate programs vs policies. To modify the program to meet its strategic needs. To define, measure and document program performance for internal use and external reporting. Evaluation should provide information on the following questions about a program. It should determine whether or not a program is: Drawing a line between policy analysis and program evaluation. Formative evaluation vs. summative evaluation formative evaluation: directed at performance of programs- budgeting, input, output, efficiency effectiveness summative evaluation: deals with the merit of the policy- the rational. Evaluators: the actors: bureaucrats, politicians, non-governmental members of the sub- system, think-tanks, interest groups, the media, the public. Politicians themselves, media, public, think tanks, we as citizens. Formal evaluation: actors involved; each department conducts its own performance evaluation in line with guidelines that are articulated by the treasury board. , the office of comptroller.