The evaluation of policies, programs, and practices / Melvin M. Mark, Jennifer C. Greene, and Ian E. Shaw -- The purposes of evaluation in a democratic society / Eleanor Chelimsky -- Roles for theory in contemporary evaluation practice : developing practical knowledge / Stewart I. Donaldson and Mark W. Lipsey -- Evaluation for practice improvement and organizational learning / Patricia J. Rogers and Bob Williams -- Evaluation and the study of lived experience / Thomas A. Schwandt and Holli Burgon -- Evaluation, democracy and social change -- Jennifer C. Greene -- Evaluation after disenchantment? : five issues shaping the role of evaluation in society / Peter Dahler-Larsen -- Government as structural context for evaluation / Phil Davies, Kathryn Newcomer, and Haluk Soydan -- The social relations of evaluation / Tineke A. Abma -- Intellectual contexts / John Stevenson and David Thomas -- The relationship between evaluation and politics / Ove Karlsson Vestman and Ross F. Conner -- Ethics in evaluation / Helen Simons -- A comparative analysis of evaluation utilization and its cognate fields of inquiry : current issues and trends / J. Bradley Cousins and Lyn M. Shulha -- Contextual challenges for evaluation practice / Elliot Stern -- Methods for policy-making and knowledge development evaluations / Melvin M. Mark and Gary T. Henry -- Embedding improvements, lived experience, and social justice in evaluation practice / Elizabeth Whitmore, Irene Guijt, Donna M. Mertens, Pamela S. Imm, Matthew Chinman and Abraham Wandersman --Managing evaluations / Robert Walker and Michael Wiseman -- Communicating evaluation / Marvin C. Alkin, Christina A. Christie and Mike Rose -- On discerning quality in evaluation / Robert E. Stake and Thomas A. Schwandt -- The practice of evaluation : challenges and new directions / Lois-ellin Datta -- Evaluation in education / David Nevo -- Evaluation of health services : reflections on practice / Andrew Long -- Social work and the human services / Ian Shaw, with Carol T Mowbray and Hazel Quershi -- Evaluation in criminal justice / Nick Tilley and Alan Clarke -- Evaluation of development interventions and humanitarian action / Osvaldo Fienstein and Tony Beck -- Evidence-based evaluation in different professional domains : similarities, differences and challenges / Alan Clarke.