Saville Kushner Information Age Publishing, Inc. 2017, PB, 296pp, £37.80, 978-1681236889
If, for you, evaluation means applying a technocratic, logic-model approach to assessing whether something was delivered exactly as planned and whether it produced the outcomes and impacts predicted, this book will be of little use to you. Likewise, if you are a dyed-in-the-wool realist evaluator who seeks the theoretical elegance of context– mechanism–outcome configurations, you can probably give it a miss too.
If, on the other hand, you view evaluation as a scholarly practice that is situated, political, negotiated, emergent, linked to democracy, and dependent on serendipity and judgement (as well as on careful measurement), this may be the book …