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Sooner or later most evaluators encounter sharp differences of perspectives, values, and interests among the stakeholders of the programs and policies being evaluating. Often, clients often do not have the same interests as the beneficiaries of the services being delivered. Faced with pronounced differences and even conflicts among stakeholders, what does the evaluator do?
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House, E.R., Howe, K.R. (2003). Deliberative Democratic Evaluation. In: Kellaghan, T., Stufflebeam, D.L. (eds) International Handbook of Educational Evaluation. Kluwer International Handbooks of Education, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0309-4_7
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