The moment of maximum ignorance: evaluation in public policy part 2
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges in balancing accountability and learning in government evaluations.
Three-quarters of government evaluations are commissioned to improve implementation. Two-thirds are commissioned for accountability. They're not the same thing, and building a system that serves both turns out to be harder than it looks. This episode is about the structural tension between backward-looking accountability — did we deliver what we promised? — and the forward-looking question of whether we're actually learning anything useful. Caroline argues the current measurement architecture...
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