Beschreibung:
Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy and Fischer raises fundamental problems associated with the traditional fact-value dichotomy.
Other Titles of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction: The Problem of Methodology -- The Fact-Value Debate and the Search for Methodology -- Political Evaluation and the Problem of Rational Judgment -- The Logic of Evaluation: Evaluation Research and Phenomenology -- The Logic of Evaluation: The Systems Perspective and Political Philosophy -- The Logic as Policy Methodology -- Appendix