Improving democracy assistance : building knowledge through evaluations and research.

"Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C : National Academies Press, 2008.
Temas:
Democracy.
New democracies.
Democratization.
Nouvelles démocraties.
Démocratisation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Democratization
New democracies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Democracy Assistance and USAID
  • U.S. Democracy Assistance
  • Democratic Development and Democracy Assistance: What Do We Know?
  • USAID's Request to the National Research Council
  • Report Overview
  • 2. Evaluation in USAID DG Programs: Current Practices and Problems
  • Current Evaluation Practices in Development Assistance: General Observations
  • Current Policy and Legal Framework for USAID DG Assessments and Evaluations
  • Three Key Problems with Current USAID Monitoring and Evaluation Practices
  • Measuring Democracy
  • Problems with Extant Indicators
  • A Disaggregated Approach to Measurement at the Country Level
  • 4. Learning from the Past: Using Case Studies of Democratic Transitions to Inform Democracy Assistance
  • Case Study Designs and Methods
  • Insights from Current Research: Results of a Conference of Case Study Specialists on Democracy
  • A Multicase Study Design to Generate and Investigate Strategic Hypotheses Regarding Democracy Assistance
  • 5. Methodologies of Impact Evaluation
  • Importance of Sound and Credible Impact Evaluations for DG Assistance
  • Internal Validity, External Validity, and Building Knowledge
  • A Typology of Impact Evaluation Designs
  • Examples of the Use of Randomized Evaluations in Impact Evaluations of Development Assistance (Including DG Projects)
  • 6. Implementing Impact Evaluations in the Field
  • Field Visits to USAID Missions
  • Employing Randomized Impact Evaluations for USAID DG Projects in the Field
  • Challenges in Applying Randomized Evaluation to DG Programs
  • 7. Additional Impact Evaluation Designs and Essential Tools for Better Project Evaluations
  • How Often Are Randomized Evaluations Feasible?
  • Designing Impact Evaluations When Randomization Is Not Possible
  • What to Do When There Is Only One Unit of Analysis
  • 8. Creating the Conditions for Conducting High-Quality Evaluations of Democracy Assistance Programs and Enhancing Organizational Learning
  • Issues in Obtaining High-Quality Impact Evaluations
  • Improving Organizational Learning
  • 9. An Evaluation Initiative to Support Learning the Impact of USAID's Democracy and Governance Programs
  • Providing Leadership and Strategic Vision
  • Implementing the Vision: The Evaluation Initiative
  • Agenda for USAID and SORA
  • Role of Congress and The Executive Branch
  • Glossary
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
  • Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Participants
  • Appendix C: Measuring Democracy
  • Appendix D: Understanding Democratic Transitions and Consolidation from Case Studies
  • Appendix E: Field Visit Summary Report
  • Appendix F: Voices from the Field.

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