TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicoletta Stame
PY  - 2022
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2576-9723
SN  - 9781433198496
TI  - Possibilism and Evaluation
T2  - Judith Tendler and Albert Hirschman
DO  - 10.3726/b19919
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1260614
N2  - Albert Hirschman affirmed that "Judith Tendler’s fine insights into the differential characteristics and side-effects of thermal and hydropower, and of generation and distribution, contributed in many ways to the formation of my views." Judith Tendler, in turn, wrote that Hirschman had taught her "to look where I never would have looked before for insight into a country’s development," and that in Albert’s work a researcher who was "patient enough" would find "a rich complexity of both success and failure, efficiency alongside incompetence, order cohabiting with disorder." Reconstructing the theoretical roots of interpretive social science, this text shows how Hirschman’s possibilism lies at the base of the original way Tendler practiced evaluation and anticipated many current developments. The continuing vitality of their thought enables us to trace the outlines of possibilist evaluation.
KW  - Possibilism, evaluation, development, change, program, learning, unintended consequences, ethics, surprise, Possibilism and evaluation, Judith Tendler and Albert Hirschman, Albert Hirschman’s Legacy, Nicoletta Stame
LA  - English
ER  -