The Role of Government and the Government's Role in Evaluating Government: Insider Information and Outsider Beliefs

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2015-11-30

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Dobell, Rod

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The conclusion of this paper is that the legitimacy and credibility of government can be better restored, and the social purposes pursued by government better achieved, through systems—including evaluation systems—that promote cooperation and trust rather than those that rest on competition and audit.

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Research paper given to the Panel on the Role of Government.

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evaluation, benefit-cost analysis, citizen engagement, civic science

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Dobell, Rod. “The Role of Government and the Government's Role in Evaluating Government: Insider Information and Outsider Beliefs.” Panel on the Role of Government, University of Victoria, August 12, 2003

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http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6880

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