Abstract
There is a growing disillusion with social science evaluation and the role it has played in the conduct of massive social programs (Speizman, 1974; Horowitz & Katz, 1975;Orlans, 1971; Williams & Evans, 1969; Cohen, 1975). In retrospect, it appears that the social science evaluations of the past decade were undertaken with impossibly high ambitions and relied upon restrictive assumptions concerning the functions that evaluation serves in governmental processes.
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Floden, R.E., Weiner, S.S. (1983). Rationality to Ritual. In: Evaluation Models. Evaluation in Education and Human Services, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6669-7_10
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