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Evaluating Public Programs: The Impact of General Revenue Sharing on Municipal Government
By (Author) Patrick D. Larkey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Regional, state and other local government
336.014
Hardback
284
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
For effective program evaluation, it is necessary to specify a counterfactual state, i.e., what would have happened without the program. Conventional approaches to program evaluation, preoccupied with technical and value issues, fail to address directly the need for counterfactual arguments. They also fail to recognize the indispensable role of pos