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125399 1 (1984-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvnp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 125399 The Congress and Evaluation Prepared for Delivery by Harry S. Havens Assistant Comptroller General of the United States at the Sixth Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management New Orleans, Louisiana October 19, 1984 INTRODUCTION Congress is a collegial, deliberative, decisionmaking body. Evaluation is a function, one of whose principal values lies in its use as an aid to the decisionmaking process. If one accepts both of these statements, it is difficult to escape the notion that Congress ought to be a major user of evaluation. Yet the scholarly literature on the Congress is dominated by carefully documented studies, the conclusions of which all seem to demonstrate that congressmen's votes are determined by factors unrelated to rigorous analysis of costs, benefits, or effectiveness. *Adapted from the author's paper The Congress and Evaluation in Making and Managing Policy: Formulation, Analysis, Evaluation, Gilbert, G. Ronald (ed.)., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1984. 1) 3 b 3 (A

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