The Politics of Program Evaluation: The Mental Health Experience
Abstract
The authors discuss evaluation studies of the community mental health centers program. They emphasize that program evaluation is a political activity to infi uence the allocation of public resources. They examme its relationship to decision-making, power conflicts, and bureaucratic goals. They point out that the evaluator is seldom totally objective. They also emphasize the increasing use of evaluation by politicians.
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