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Between Scientific Standards and Claims to Efficiency: Expert Interviews in Programme Evaluation

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Interviewing Experts

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Abstract

In the past 20 years evaluation has been established in the German-speaking area as an integral part of social policy, particularly in connection with the development and implementation of social policy programmes. This development was strongly influenced by EU policy, specifically by the “open method of coordination” and the precept to evaluate all programmes co-financed by EU money. In most European countries this resulted in a boost to professionalization, which had already set in decades earlier in the USA1 In the meantime, in the field of evaluation of social policy programmes a state-of-the-art has developed in the German-speaking area that does receive Anglo-American research but which simultaneously foregrounds participatory and responsive practices as antithesis to quantitatively oriented effect analysis.

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  1. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

    Alexander Bogner

  2. Institute of Advanced Studies, Austria

    Beate Littig

  3. Institute for Social Science Research, Germany

    Wolfgang Menz

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Wroblewski, A., Leitner, A. (2009). Between Scientific Standards and Claims to Efficiency: Expert Interviews in Programme Evaluation. In: Bogner, A., Littig, B., Menz, W. (eds) Interviewing Experts. Research Methods Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244276_12

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