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The Politics And Consequences Of Stakeholder Participation In International Development Evaluation, Anne Cullen
The Politics And Consequences Of Stakeholder Participation In International Development Evaluation, Anne Cullen
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Participatory approaches to evaluation have long been vogue in the international development evaluation community. However, despite their widespread use, there is a dearth of research on the impact of stakeholder participation in international development evaluations. Although proponents of participatory approaches to international development evaluation assert many advantages of their use, the evidence to support these claims is largely anecdotal. Similarly, critics of participatory approaches do not have empirical data on which to base their assertions. Further confusing the matter are multiple and conflicting definitions of stakeholder and participation. Some interpret stakeholders to mean funders while others view stakeholders as those …
Important Or Impotent? Radical Right Political Parties And Public Policy In Germany And Austria, Marcella J. Myers
Important Or Impotent? Radical Right Political Parties And Public Policy In Germany And Austria, Marcella J. Myers
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Across Western Europe throughout the 1990s radical right political parties emerged and gained some electoral success. Since that time, particularly in the face of the popularity of the National Front in France and the Freedom Party in Austria, many studies have been conducted examining the voting behavior, party membership and ideologies of these parties, and what the parties mean to democratic governments. Largely unexamined are the effects of radical right political parties on public policy. This study attempts to evaluate the effect of radical right parties on public policy by using a most similar, case study research design, relying heavily …