The political context: Politics and evaluation /Dennis J. Palumbo. Where politics and evaluation research meet / Carol H. Weiss -- The policy cycle: Linking program evaluation to user needs / Eleanor Chelimsky. Evaluation's political inherency / Michael Quinn Patton. What should evaluation mean to implementation? / Angela Browne and Aaron Wildavsky. Policy termination as a political phenomenon / Peter DeLeon -- Politics and research methods: The countenances of fourth-generation evaluation / Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln. The influence of theory on what we see / Lawrence A. Scaff and Helen M. Ingram. The political uses of evaluation research / Susan J. Tolchin. The politics of meaning and policy inquiry /Rita Mae Kelly
