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- Title
Evaluering som politisk forsikring.
- Authors
Lindeberg, Tobias Høygaard
- Abstract
This article examines whether insurance can serve as a metaphor to comprehend evaluation and how it may influence the understanding of evaluation in society. The perspective adds a rationalistic counterpoint to leading studies that perceive evaluation as a ritualised practice. The article argues that evaluation can be understood as insurance in the sense that evaluation distributes the risk of decision-making parallel to the distribution of economic risk of insurance. Additionally, the article identifies central differences between insurance and evaluation, especially in regard to the two different logics at stake: market logic and hierarchy logic. The differences imply that the costs of evaluation -- in contrast to costs of insurance -- are not primarily born by those who benefit from the evaluation. Moreover, while risk sharing is typically desirable in an economic context, it is more ambiguous in a political context. Evaluation is often employed to enhance accountability, yet, when evaluation is analysed as insurance, it becomes clear that evaluation also diffuse accountability.
- Publication
Økonomi & Politik, 2015, Vol 88, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
0030-1906
- Publication type
Article